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sample
[ sam-puhl, sahm- ]
noun
- a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- Statistics. a subset of a population:
to study a sample of the total population.
- a sound of short duration, as a musical tone or a drumbeat, digitally stored in a synthesizer for playback.
adjective
- serving as a specimen:
a sample piece of cloth.
verb (used with object)
- to take a sample or samples of; test or judge by a sample.
sample
/ ˈ²õɑ˳¾±èÉ™±ô /
noun
- a small part of anything, intended as representative of the whole; specimen
- ( as modifier )
a sample bottle
- Also calledsampling statistics
- 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 See also matched sample
- ( as modifier )
sample distribution
verb
- tr to take a sample or samples of
- music
- to take a short extract from (one record) and mix it into a different backing track
- to record (a sound) and feed it into a computerized synthesizer so that it can be reproduced at any pitch
sample
- In statistics , a group drawn from a larger population and used to estimate the characteristics of the whole population.
Notes
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ¾±²Ôt±ð°ù·²õ²¹³¾î€ƒp±ô±ð noun adjective verb (used with object) intersampled intersampling
- ³¾¾±²õ·²õ²¹³¾î€ƒp±ô±ð verb missampled missampling
- °ù±ð·²õ²¹³¾î€ƒp±ô±ð verb (used with object) resampled resampling
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of sample1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
That’s why, this year, Young brought torpedo samples with him on his spring training tour to showcase to a wider range of players.
On the trade show floor, all manner of vendors were selling the latest popcorn toppings, reclining theater seats, carpet samples and a smart bar that said it would pour the perfect cocktail in four seconds.
He then landed for about five minutes, leaving his offerings, collecting samples and recording a video.
Three years later, Mina and his collaborators took blood samples from 77 unvaccinated children in a community in the Netherlands before and then two to six months after the children contracted measles.
Other critics have argued that the sample size is simply too small to extrapolate any of the Yale findings to the population at large.
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