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A portion, piece, or segment that is representative of a whole.
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An entity that is representative of a class; a specimen. See Synonyms at example.
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Statistics A set of elements drawn from and analyzed to estimate the characteristics of a population. Also called sampling.
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A usually digitized audio segment taken from an original recording and inserted, often repetitively, in a new recording.
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To take a sample of, especially to test or examine by a sample: the restaurant critic who must sample a little of everything.
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American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.