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Items selected from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In general, a sample is a limited quantity of something which is intended to be similar to and represent a larger amount of that thing(s). The things could be countable objects such as individual items available as units for sale, or a material not countable ...
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n. a small part of something intended as representative of the whole items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population [syn: sample distribution , sampling ] all or part of a natural object that is collected and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to test by taking a sample," 1767, from sample (n.). Earlier "to be a match for" (1590s). Related: Sampled ; sampling .
Usage examples of sample.
The alligator specimen and all the tissue and blood samples were gone?
Where we read that, after the casting of lots, the sample lives are exhibited with the casual circumstances attending them and that the choice is made upon vision, in accordance with the individual temperament, we are given to understand that the real determination lies with the Souls, who adapt the allotted conditions to their own particular quality.
Monsorlit took a lancet and ampul and deftly took a blood sample from the ugly man.
In one poisonous sample which it fell to my lot to investigate, the evil had been caused by the sophistication of the anotta, employed for colouring cheese.
The rigorous schedule of trips to the clinic and injections and providing samples gave way to antenatal check-ups and relaxation classes.
There are about two thousand labs in the United States alone that have anthrax samples, not to mention hostile foreign nations such as Iraq that have large supplies.
Nasal swabs are typically used to determine how far spores have traveled in a specific room or building where the presence of anthrax is suspected or has already been established by environmental sampling.
It involves placing a blood sample in a culture of nutrients and then waiting twenty-four to seventy-two hours to see if an anthrax colony grows.
When traces of anthrax were found in 9 of 377 environmental samples taken afterward, the Environmental Protection Agency decided to go back in and fumigate again.
On these graphs the frequency of emissions from the indium antimonide sample increased from left to right.
One of the indium antimonide samples acted funny and he had to cycle the rig down, dump the cold bath and pull the defective sample.
She was a fine operations astronomer, skilled at sampling the steady stream of data that flowed through the High Energy Astrophysics Center, though a bit too earnest for his taste.
Schuyler Kimball, playboy billionaire, to know the man would never have a woman like this in his employ without sampling her personal wares on a regular basis.
It provided automated storage and retrieval of the hundreds of bar-coded DNA samples, embryos, and blastulas that the geneticists had to keep track of.
Many of the larger samples were layered: Borosilicate on the outside, some alkali-barium beneath that, and something that looks like passivation glass under that.