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Sampling

noun

(statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study.

Items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population. Synonyms: sample, sample distribution.

Measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form).

Sample

verb

Take a sample of. Synonyms: taste, try, try out. "Sample the regional dishes"

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"Sampling" Quotes from Famous Books

... pity, though," said Dick, with a thirsty sigh. "I've always had a sneaking fancy that if I ever came to Spain I'd stop at Jerez—'the place where the sherry comes from'—and potter about in huge, cool bodegas, sampling golden wine from giant casks with queer names on them. Only think what it would feel like to-day to have a stream of mellow 'Methusalem' trickling over our dusty lips and down our dry throats? Great Scott! I daren't dwell on it, since it can't be. But it's ...

— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... control experiments, the air leaving the mercury valve D (fig. 30, page 66) was caused to pass through a T-tube, one arm of which connected directly with the sampling pipette of the Sonden gas-analysis apparatus, the other arm connecting with the U-tubes for residual analyses. By lowering and raising the mercury reservoir on the gas-analysis apparatus, a sample of air could be drawn into the apparatus for analysis. The ...

— Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man • Francis Gano Benedict

... had taken something from the box and was sampling it. As it chanced to be a piece of the rubber band she made ...

— The Rover Boys in New York • Arthur M. Winfield

... of my visit to the grass was, at least momentarily, a failure. There was little point sampling and analyzing the weed for its possible use as an ingredient in a food concentrate if it were impossible to set up a permanent place to gather and process it. I won't say I considered my time wasted, but its ...

— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

... easy to sum up the merits of the miscellaneous pieces, for the very obvious reason that they can hardly be brought under any general form or illustrated by any small number of typical instances. Perhaps the best way of "sampling" this undisciplined multitude is to select a few papers by name, so as to show the variety of Hazlitt's interests. The one already mentioned, "On Going to a Fight," which shocked some proprieties even in its own day, ranks almost first; but the reader should ...

— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury