Sample
noun
1.
a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
2.
Statistics. a subset of a population:
to study a sample of the total population.
3.
a sound of short duration, as a musical tone or a drumbeat, digitally stored in a synthesizer for playback.
adjective
4.
serving as a specimen:
a sample piece of cloth.
verb (used with object), sampled, sampling.
5.
to take a sample or samples of; test or judge by a sample.
noun
1.
a small part of anything, intended as representative of the whole; specimen
(as modifier): a sample bottle
2.
(statistics) Also called sampling
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
3.
(transitive) to take a sample or samples of
4.
(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 definition
In statistics, a group drawn from a larger population and used to estimate the characteristics of the whole population.
Note: Opinion polls use small groups of people, often selected at random, as a sample of the opinions of the general public.
digital signal processing
The result of measuring the amplitude of an analog signal at a specified time. In digital signal processing a sample is a signed or unsigned number and the number of samples per second is called the sample rate.
(2001-06-06)
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