Definitions for sampling

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sampling sam·pling

Spelling: [sam-pling, sahm-]

IPA: /ˈsæm plɪŋ, ˈsɑm-/

Sampling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 394 anagrams from letters in sampling (agilmnps).

Definitions for sampling

noun

1. the act or process of selecting a sample for testing, analyzing, etc.
2. the sample so selected.
3. a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
4. Statistics. a subset of a population:
5. a sound of short duration, as a musical tone or a drumbeat, digitally stored in a synthesizer for playback.

adjective

1. serving as a specimen:

verb (used with object)

1. to take a sample or samples of; test or judge by a sample.

Origin of sampling

First recorded in 1630-40; sample + -ing¹

Examples for sampling

Dog and herder sniffed the evening air, sampling the new odor.

To understand what this means, it is useful to contrast quotation and sampling.

Minaj dropped her newest single Anaconda on Monday, a Sir Mix-A-Lot sampling ode to her own assets.

She had his tin stew-pan on the fire and was bending over it, sampling the contents.

The sampling and the cabin and the tunnel count for assessment work.

For example, Ed explained to me that while a sampling a beat is a well-known device in rap music, he samples colors.

A sampling of comments on various news sites makes the political divide surrounding this ad painfully clear.

The report claims not only that the study measured for cannabis and risk of accident, but that it was a sampling of national data.

Overall, the average duration of illness at sampling was nine days.

He walked back to the anteroom and looked at the sampling chamber.