sampling

IPA: sˈæmpɫɪŋ

The process or technique of obtaining a representative sample.
A sample.
(statistics) The analysis of a group by determining the characteristics of a significant percentage of its members chosen at random.
(signal processing) The measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order to convert it to digital form.
(music) Electronically splicing pieces of previously recorded sound as part of a composition, especially as part of hip-hop or electronic dance music.

Examples of "sampling" in Sentences

There's no shame in sampling the sweets -- we all do it.
Contrafact is what they called sampling before there was sampling.
Two books I highly recommend for those interested in sampling are:
“I still need to be convinced that the sampling is a problem,” Clark said.
The 20th century obsession with mass production has been turned on its head with mass customization, and sampling is part of that.
Also, sampling from a shadowed neck area could be worse than sampling from well exposed area with makeup, depending on the lighting setup.
Over the full 10 days of their tracking so far, Toomey is averaging a slightly better than two-point lead very close to our trend estimate, and all of their daily releases over the last week have been within sampling error of that average.
Then we ate a sampling from the kitchen: a mound of succulent Kobe beef, fried pork belly, sea scallops with osetra caviar, black grouper, blue prawns cooked at the table on a salt block, foie gras with a riesling-pineapple-coriander emulsion and Meyer lemon tart and crushed amaretti mousse with vanilla-bean meringue, washed down by Champagne (Krug, Clos de Ambonnay 1995), at one of the outdoor tables under a tent by the elaborately tiled pool.