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noun
1.
a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
2.
Statistics. a subset of a population: to study a sample of the total population.
3.
a sound of short duration, as a musical tone or a drumbeat, digitally stored in a synthesizer for playback.
adjective
4.
serving as a specimen: a sample piece of cloth.
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Sample
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verb (used with object)
5.
to take a sample or samples of; test or judge by a sample.
Related forms
in·ter·sam·ple, noun, adjective, verb (used with object), in·ter·sam·pled, in·ter·sam·pling.
mis·sam·ple, verb, mis·sam·pled, mis·sam·pling.
re·sam·ple, verb (used with object), re·sam·pled, re·sam·pling.
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Example Sentences
- That's a huge sample size for usability testing, so the distributed model makes sense.
- One type of test kit contains a special tissue that you use to collect the sample.
- Under dark field what you observe is the refracted light from the sample which will really light up your images.
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World English Dictionary
| sample (ˈsɑːmpəl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a small part of anything, intended as representative of the whole; specimen |
| b. (as modifier): a sample bottle | |
| 2. | statistics Also called: sampling |
| a. See also matched sample 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 | |
| b. (as modifier): sample distribution | |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (tr) to take a sample or samples of |
| 4. | music |
| a. to take a short extract from (one record) and mix it into a different backing track | |
| b. to record (a sound) and feed it into a computerized synthesizer so that it can be reproduced at any pitch | |
| [C13: from Old French essample, from Latin exemplum | |
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Word Origin & History
sample
c.1300, "something which confirms a proposition or statement," from Anglo-Fr. saumple, aphetic of O.Fr. essample, from L. exemplum "a sample" (see example). Meaning "small quantity (of something) from which the general quality (of the whole) may be inferred" (usually in
EXPAND a commercial sense) is recorded from 1428; sense of "specimen for scientific sampling" is from 1878. The verb meaning "to test by taking a sample" is from 1767.
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
sample definition
In statistics, a group drawn from a larger population and used to estimate the characteristics of the whole population.
Note: Opinion polls use small groups of people, often selected at random, as a sample of the opinions of the general public.
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Computing Dictionary
sample definition
digital signal processingThe result of measuring the amplitude of an analog signal at a specified time. In digital signal processing a sample is a signed or unsigned number and the number of samples per second is called the sample rate.
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