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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.
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Statistics. a subset of a population: to study a sample of the total population.
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a sound of short duration, as a musical tone or a drumbeat, digitally stored in a synthesizer for playback.
adjective
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serving as a specimen: a sample piece of cloth.
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Sampled
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
verb (used with object)
5.
to take a sample or samples of; test or judge by a sample.
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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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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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