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Specimen (noun)
An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
“early specimens of the art of Picasso”
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Specimen (noun)
A sample, especially one used for diagnostic analysis.
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Specimen (noun)
An eligible man.
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Sample (noun)
A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen
“a blood sample”
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Sample (noun)
A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
“”…it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.” Francis Galton et al. (1883). Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, [http://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchImages/galton/search/essays/pages/galton-1883-rba-anthro-report-final_14.htm p. 269].”
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Sample (noun)
A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
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Sample (noun)
A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
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Sample (noun)
Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
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Sample (noun)
Example; pattern.
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Sample (verb)
To take or to test a sample or samples of
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Sample (verb)
To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
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Sample (verb)
To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
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Sample (verb)
To make or show something similar to a sample.
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Sample (noun)
a small part or quantity intended to show what the whole is like
“investigations involved analysing samples of handwriting”
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Sample (noun)
a small amount of a food or other commodity, especially one given to a prospective customer
“a free sample of chewing gum”
“samples of products for evaluation”
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Sample (noun)
a specimen taken for scientific testing or analysis
“a urine sample”
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Sample (noun)
a portion drawn from a population, the study of which is intended to lead to statistical estimates of the attributes of the whole population
“a simple random sample of forty-five students”
“they shared these characteristics with other women in the sample”
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Sample (noun)
a sound or piece of music created by sampling
“piano samples”
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Sample (verb)
take a sample or samples of (something) for analysis
“bone marrow cells were sampled”
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Sample (verb)
try the qualities of (food or drink) by tasting it
“it is a chance to sample probably the widest range of wines ever assembled”
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Sample (verb)
get a representative experience of
“sample some entertaining nights out in Liverpool”
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Sample (verb)
ascertain the momentary value of (an analogue signal) many times a second so as to convert the signal to digital form
“the input signal must be sampled at twice its highest frequency”
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Sample (verb)
record or extract (a small piece of music or sound) digitally for reuse as part of a composition or song
“riffs sampled from other musicians”