- present participle of sample.
noun
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the process of selecting a random sample
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a variant of sample
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the process of taking a short extract from (a record) and mixing it into a different backing track
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a process in which a continuous electrical signal is approximately represented by a series of discrete values, usually regularly spaced
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The deal should remove the need for £200 Export Health Certificates, £25 Phytosanitary certificates, inspector fees, organic certificates, some port fees, sampling fees and other checks for exports and imports to and from the EU.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
This more sophisticated sampling technique reduces the minimum distance required for the 2-approximation guarantee to hold, without increasing the algorithm's overall computational complexity.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
But he surely understood that this was an incautiously brief period of measurement, for the river’s annual flow was wildly variable, ranging from about 9.1 million to 25 million acre-feet during the 20-year sampling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Smaller bowls encourage sampling; larger ones let guests settle in with their favorites.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
We should all remember that our impressions of others are usually filtered in this way, and that our sampling of people and their moods is not random.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
This is the first show devoted to this period, and it introduces an early Ray Johnson that is quite different from the one known for his later gritty samplings of popular culture.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
Because satellite measurements are not direct samplings of pollution particles, researchers must use a statistical conversion process that at least one study showed can involve a lot of error.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2022
“We have been making samplings for other furniture companies. We continue to push forward.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 28, 2021
Arbitrators reinstate about half of the fired officers whose appeals they consider, according to separate reviews of samplings of cases by The Times and a law professor.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2020
Positive results in Martian microbiology were achieved in seven different samplings in two locales on Mars separated by 5,000 kilometers.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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