chooser

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person or thing that makes a choice

   The responsibility for the decision rests with the chooser.

2. 2
   noun

   computing: a control or dialog used to select an item, such as a file or color

   The file chooser opened in the project's current folder.

From Middle English chesere, formed from choose + the agent suffix -er. The computing sense extends the same idea from a person to a selection interface.

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