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Definition sample

Etymology

From Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example.

Noun

sample (plural samples)

1. A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
2. (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
3. (cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
4. (business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
5. (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
6. (obsolete) Example; pattern.

Verb

sample (third-person singular simple present samples, present participle sampling, simple past and past participle sampled)

1. (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.
2. (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
3. (music, transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
4. (transitive, computer graphics) To make or show something similar to a sample.

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