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sampled

Variant of sample

noun

  1. a part, piece, or item taken or shown as representative of a whole thing, group, species, etc.; specimen; pattern: samples of wallpaper
  2. an illustration; example: a sample of his humor
  3. a small amount of sound, music, etc. taken from one context, digitized and recorded, edited, and used again in another context
  4. Statistics a selected segment of a population studied to gain knowledge of the whole

transitive verb sampled, sampling

  1. to take a sample or samples of, as for testing quality
  2. to digitize and record (small amounts of sound, music, etc.) for editing and using again in another context

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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