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select all results

To select all results is to choose every item in the complete set of results returned by a search, filter, or query.

In plain English

This means including every matching item, not just the ones currently in view. The scope is the entire result set produced by the search, filter, or query. It treats all returned items as chosen together.

In context

Here, it indicates an action that chooses the entire set of items matching the current search, filter, or query.

Situation
Using dashboards, tables, filters, sorting, views, and bulk controls
What it communicates
offers selection of the full matching result set

Meaning limits

The term alone does not say how many items are in that set or whether all of them are currently visible.

Examples

“After narrowing the search, Mia selected all results, not just the first twenty on the screen.”

Core meaning

“To prepare the report, the clerk selected all results from the current search.”

In context

  • select all Broader Term

    This action is a specific case of selecting every item in a set.

  • deselect all results Opposite

    This is the opposite action for the same set of results.