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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of sample.
  • noun the process or technique of obtaining a representative sample
  • noun a sample
  • noun statistics the analysis of a group by determining the characteristics of a significant percentage of its members chosen at random
  • noun signal processing the measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order to convert it to digital form
  • noun music a technique for electronically splicing pieces of previously recorded sound as part of a composition

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

  • “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

  • There's no shame in sampling the sweets -- we all do it.

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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

  • 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:

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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

  • Also, sampling from a shadowed neck area could be worse than sampling from well exposed area with makeup, depending on the lighting setup.

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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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