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Definition of SAMPLE

1. Verb. Take a sample of. "They SAMPLE more bread"; "Sample the regional dishes"

2. Noun. A small part of something intended as representative of the whole.

3. Noun. Items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population.

4. Noun. All or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class.

Definition of SAMPLE

1. n. Example; pattern.

2. v. t. To make or show something similar to; to match.

Definition of SAMPLE

1. Initialism. (emergency medicine) Initialism of ''signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past pertinent history, last oral intake, events leading to present illness''. ¹

2. Noun. A part of anything taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples. ¹

3. Noun. (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population. ¹

4. Noun. (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording, used to emphasize a particular point by implying a certain context. ¹

5. Noun. (obsolete) Example; pattern. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To make or show something similar to; to match. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wool, cloth. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new song. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of SAMPLE

1. to test a representative portion of a whole [v -PLED, -PLING, -PLES]

Medical Definition of SAMPLE

1. 1. A specimen of a whole entity small enough to involve no threat or damage to the whole; an aliquot. 2. A selected subset of a population; a sample may be random or nonrandom (haphazard); representative or nonrepresentative. Origin: M.E. Ensample, fr. L. Exemplum, example (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sample

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sampires sampis samplable sampladelia sampladelic sample sample distribution sample function sample functions sample market

sample markets sample mean sample size sample space sample spaces sampled sampleite sampler samplers

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