Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act, process, or technique of selecting an appropriate sample.
- noun A small portion, piece, or segment selected as a sample.
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- verb Present participle of
sample . - noun the
process ortechnique ofobtaining arepresentative sample - noun a sample
- noun statistics the
analysis of agroup bydetermining thecharacteristics of asignificant percentage of itsmembers chosen atrandom - noun signal processing the
measurement , atregular intervals , of theamplitude of avarying waveform inorder toconvert it todigital form - noun music a
technique forelectronically splicing pieces of previouslyrecorded sound as part of acomposition
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
- noun items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
- noun (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
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Examples
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“I still need to be convinced that the sampling is a problem,” Clark said.
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Contrafact is what they called sampling before there was sampling.
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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.
New PPP Polls Favor Joe Manchin, Michael Bennet In Senate Races The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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There's no shame in sampling the sweets -- we all do it.
Wines To Pair With Your Halloween Candy The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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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.
New PPP Polls Favor Joe Manchin, Michael Bennet In Senate Races The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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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.
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Two books I highly recommend for those interested in sampling are:
June 17th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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There's no shame in sampling the sweets -- we all do it.
Wines To Pair With Your Halloween Candy Slashfood 2010
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Also, sampling from a shadowed neck area could be worse than sampling from well exposed area with makeup, depending on the lighting setup.
How Do You Fix Bad Skin Tones In Photographs? | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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The 20th century obsession with mass production has been turned on its head with mass customization, and sampling is part of that.
Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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