Available Definitions:
1) a. - Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.
2) a. - Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.
3) a. - Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.
4) n. - In an American college, an optional study or course of study.