sampling

Pluralsamplings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Choosing a small part of a group so it can stand for the whole.

   Like tasting one spoonful of soup to know how the whole pot tastes.

   Careful sampling let the team learn about the whole forest from just a few trees.

   Good sampling means picking people who really match the larger group.

   Similarselection

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Taking pieces of old recordings and putting them into a new song, often in hip-hop or dance music.

   Like cutting out shapes from old magazines to glue into a new collage.

   The producer built the whole track around sampling from an old soul record.

   Sampling is everywhere in modern hip-hop.

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   A small part taken to show what the whole is like.

   Like a few free bites at a food stall that show what the kitchen can do.

   The menu offered a sampling of dishes from each region.

   We got a sampling of their best songs at the show.

   Similarselection, cross-section, assortment, taste

4. 4
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Learning about a whole group by studying a random part of it.

   Like judging a big pot of stew by stirring it and tasting one spoon.

   Through sampling, researchers estimated how many fish lived in the lake.

   Sampling helps pollsters guess how a country will vote.

   Similarpolling, surveying

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5. 5
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Measuring a signal's strength at regular moments to turn it into digital data.

   Like checking a clock at set times instead of watching it nonstop.

   Sampling turns the sound waves from a microphone into numbers a computer can store.

   Higher sampling captures more detail from the original signal.

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6. 6
   verb

   Present participle of sample. Use this -ing form when the action of taking a sample is happening now.

   The chef is sampling the soup before serving it.

   They spent the afternoon sampling cheeses at the market.

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