Selector

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Selector \Se*lect"or\, n. [L.]
     One who selects.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  selector
       n 1: a person who chooses or selects out [syn: {picker}, {chooser}]
       2: a switch that is used to select among alternatives [syn: {selector
          switch}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  selector
       
           1. In {Smalltalk} or {Objective C}, the {syntax}
          of a message which selects a particular {method} in the target
          {object}.
       
          2. An operation that returns the state of an object but does
          not alter that state.  Selector {functions} or {method}s often
          have names which begin with "get" and corresponding {modifier}
          methods or {procedures} whose names begin with "set".
       
          (1998-01-12)