sample
sample definition
sam·ple (sam′pəl, säm′-)
noun
- a part, piece, or item taken or shown as representative of a whole thing, group, species, etc.; specimen; pattern samples of wallpaper
- an illustration; example a sample of his humor
- a small amount of sound, music, etc. taken from one context, digitized and recorded, edited, and used again in another context
- ☆ Statistics a selected segment of a population studied to gain knowledge of the whole
Etymology: ME, aphetic for asample < Anglo-Fr, for OFr essample: see example
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