1a. A portion, piece, or segment that is representative of a whole. b. An entity that is representative of a class; a specimen. See synonyms at example. 2.Statistics A set of elements drawn from and analyzed to estimate the characteristics of a population. Also called sampling. 3. A usually digitized audio segment taken from an original recording and inserted, often repetitively, in a new recording.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: sam·pled, sam·pling, sam·ples 1. To take a sample of, especially to test or examine by a sample: the restaurant critic who must sample a little of everything.2. To use or incorporate (an audio segment of an original recording) in a new recording: a song that samples the bass line of a 1970s disco tune.
ADJECTIVE:
Serving as a representative or example: sample test questions; a sample piece of fabric.
ETYMOLOGY:
Partly Middle English (from Anglo-Norman) and partly short for Middle English ensample (from Anglo-Norman), both from Latin exemplum. See example.
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