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sample
[ sam-puhl, sahm- ]
noun
- a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- Statistics. a subset of a population:
to study a sample of the total population.
- a sound of short duration, as a musical tone or a drumbeat, digitally stored in a synthesizer for playback.
adjective
- serving as a specimen:
a sample piece of cloth.
verb (used with object)
- to take a sample or samples of; test or judge by a sample.
sample
/ ˈsɑːmpəl /
noun
- a small part of anything, intended as representative of the whole; specimen
- ( as modifier )
a sample bottle
- Also calledsampling statistics
- a set of individuals or items selected from a population for analysis to yield estimates of, or to test hypotheses about, parameters of the whole population. A biased sample is one in which the items selected share some property which influences their distribution, while a random sample is devised to avoid any such interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population See also matched sample
- ( as modifier )
sample distribution
verb
- tr to take a sample or samples of
- music
- to take a short extract from (one record) and mix it into a different backing track
- to record (a sound) and feed it into a computerized synthesizer so that it can be reproduced at any pitch
sample
- In statistics , a group drawn from a larger population and used to estimate the characteristics of the whole population.
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Other Words From
- inter·sample noun adjective verb (used with object) intersampled intersampling
- mis·sample verb missampled missampling
- re·sample verb (used with object) resampled resampling
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sample1
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Example Sentences
The astronomers found that of the 93 quasars in the sample, 19 exhibited a measurable amount of polarization.
In West Africa at the present, an Ebola test can take four days or more and that is if the sample is not lost.
Sample reportedly told her “to drop the matter” and not discuss it with anybody else.
Virginia is one of the 29 states that requires arrestees to submit a DNA sample to be entered into CODIS.
Ever since Eve urged Adam to sample the forbidden fruit, men have been doing crazy things in the name of love.
The fact was noted in my report and now his conduct out here has been fully up to sample.
The sample examined should be the middle milk, or the entire quantity from one breast.
The differences are here very remarkable, especially in the quantity of ammonia, which is exceedingly large in the first sample.
Some of the seed was sent to the collector of Kaira, who forwarded a sample of the tobacco grown from it.
The principle on which the value of any commercial sample is estimated is very simple.
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