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I use "deselect" in my technical manuals to indicate that the user should select something else or nothing at all.

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On the desktop of many operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac...) you can select an item with a single click and you deselect by clicking where there is no item (an 'empty' part of the desktop.

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