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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

... with a flagon of wine and some cakes. Florel was sampling them when the steward returned. The man bowed respectfully, waited for Florel to finish his wine, and led the way through a corridor to a heavy pair of ...

— Millennium • Everett B. Cole

... 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

... 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

... might remain automatically in membership when they "go down." In fact of course the percentage which retains its membership is very small. "Men" and women at Universities join any organisation whose leaders at the moment are influential and popular. They are sampling life to discover what suits them, and a few years later some of them are scattered over the globe, others immersed in science or art, or wholly occupied in law and medicine, in the church and the army, in the civil service and in journalism. ...

— The History of the Fabian Society • Edward R. Pease

... 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