sample
IPA: sˈæmpʌɫ
noun
- A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
- (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
- (cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
- (business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
- (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
- (obsolete) Example; pattern.
- A surname.
- (emergency medicine) Initialism of signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past pertinent history, last oral intake, events leading to present illness.
verb
- (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.
- (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
- (music, transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
- (transitive, computer graphics) To make or show something similar to a sample.
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Examples of "sample" in Sentences
- The sample is placed in the thimble.
- The volume of the sample is measured.
- These are known as purposive samples.
- It depends on the homogeneity of the sample.
- The dates depend on the samples and the methods of sampling.
- Google something like sample deposition or sample interrogatories.
- DNA samples from the man matched the DNA samples from the handkerchief.
- The sampled signal is indistinguishable from the samples of many other signals.
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