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means The act or power of selecting between two or more possibilities, or the option that gets selected.

from From Old French 'chois,' the act of choosing, built on the verb 'choisir,' to choose or perceive. That French verb is itself a cousin of our own 'choose,' both reaching back through Germanic roots to a sense of 'tasting' or 'trying' something out — the old idea that to choose is to sample and approve. English already had 'choose'; it borrowed 'choice' from across the Channel and kept the polished noun while keeping the homegrown verb.