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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

... touch on the spinet. Sir Oliver in his lordly way had sent a spinet by cart from Boston; and Tatty, long since outstripped by her pupil, had a trick of picking out passages from the more difficult pieces of music and "sampling" them as she innocently termed it—a few chords now and again, but melodies for the most part, note by note ...

— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... Not one bale in twenty is ever seen by the buyers until after its purchase. Frequently the buyers transfer their cotton to other parties without once looking upon it Sometimes cotton is sold at auction instead of being offered at private sale, but the process of "sampling" is carried out in ...

— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox

... length enigmatically, rather as if she were sampling the word, and then she paused. She paused for a considerable space, as if she were considering happiness in all its bearings. "Hilda was here to-day," she suddenly resumed, as if they had never mentioned happiness. "She brought Bobbie—he's a fine boy now." Ralph observed, ...

— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf

... or proprietors of establishments in which phonorecord players are located, have such access to such establishments and to the phonorecord players located therein and such opportunity to obtain information with respect thereto as may be reasonably necessary to determine, by sampling procedures or otherwise, the proportion of contribution of the musical works of each such person to the earnings of the phonorecord players for which fees shall have been deposited. Any person who alleges that he or she has been denied the access permitted under the regulations ...

— Copyright Law of the United States of America: - contained in Title 17 of the United States Code. • Library of Congress Copyright Office

... initiated an advertising campaign, coupled with sampling, and received many fine letters which encouraged us to hire a salesman who sold the product to the stores in the Twin City area so as to have proper distribution. Advertising was done also in two national magazines, so we sat back, hopefully anticipating the big orders that ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various