Selectivity may refer to:
Psychology and behaviour
- Choice, making a selection among options
- Discrimination, the ability to recognize differences
- Socioemotional selectivity theory, in social psychology
Engineering
- Selectivity (radio), a measure of the performance of a radio receiver to respond only to the radio signal it is tuned
- Selectivity (circuit breakers), the coordination of overcurrent protection devices in an electrical installation
Biology
- Binding selectivity, in pharmacology
- Functional selectivity, in pharmacology
- Natural selection, in biology
Chemistry
- Reactivity–selectivity principle, in general chemistry
- Chemoselectivity, a term used in organic chemistry to describe reactivity of one functional group in the presence of other groups
- Stereoselectivity, a term used in organic chemistry to describe the distribution of isomers in reaction products
- Regioselectivity, a term used in organic chemistry to describe reaction mechanisms and predict reaction products
Mathematics
- Sensitivity and specificity, in statistical theory
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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