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samplest

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sam⋅ple

  [sam-puhl, sahm-] noun, adjective, verb, -pled, -pling.
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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.
–verb (used with object)
5. to take a sample or samples of; test or judge by a sample.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < OF essample. See example

Synonyms:
1. See example.
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Cultural Dictionary

sample

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.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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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 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: sam·ple
Pronunciation: 'sam-p&l
Function: noun
1 : a representative part or a single item from a larger whole or groupespecially when presented for inspection or shown as evidence of quality : SPECIMEN sample>
2 : a finite part of a statistical population whose properties are studied to gain information about the whole
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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