Learn English – the correct term for a set of options

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Note that I am not talking about a set of choices, but options.

To expatiate more, I mean to say: That there set(or group/class etc) that contains subsets that have therein options, where a choice must be made, and when all the subsets of options have been decided upon, the result is a set of choices.

It's best that I provide a general, visual example:

Breakfast_choice:[apple, cereal, whatever]; Lunch_choice:[Fish, Sandwich, whatever];
Dinner_choice:[Rice, Curry, unicorns]

Say I chose for breakfast, lunch, and dinner: Apple, Fish, and unicorns respectively. Thus my choices are: [Apple, Fish, unicorns]

So, what I basically want is a name for a group of choices. Of course, I could just call them 'choices' but then if I did that there's no way to distinguish between the choices groups as breakfast, lunch, and dinner, i.e they'd 'spill' into eachother.

I also may call them the 'set of choices', but I don't want to sound as if it's a set of choices that have already been made, which is why am hesitant in using the word.

Best Answer

The word you are looking is simply selections.

For breakfact, you choose "apple" from the available options. For lunch you choose "fish" from the available options. For dinner, you choose "unicorns" from the available options. Each of these -- apple, fish, unicorns -- is a selection, and together they are selections.

Comment on aparente001's answer: I wouldn't call the three selections "a selection". You could call the three selections a "set of selections" or an "array of selections" -- both would be perfectly fine -- but they don't meet your request for a single word. Selections does.