subsample

American  

[suhb-sam-puhl, suhb-sam-puhl] / ˈsʌbˌsæm pəl, sʌbˈsæm pəl /

noun

1. a specimen from or a small part of a sample.

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verb (used with object)

subsampled, subsampling

1. to take a subsample of.

Etymology

Origin of subsample

First recorded in 1895–1900; sub- + sample

Example Sentences

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subsample subsampled

The examinations and imaging were conducted on two occasions for a subsample, with an average interval of six years between the first and second imaging session.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

The Berkeley institute’s poll surveyed 6,030 registered California voters online in English and Spanish, Aug. 24-29, including a weighted subsample of 3,113 considered likely to vote in the March primary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

Next, the team looked at a subsample of 99 cultures that, according to a widely used benchmark in anthropology, developed relatively independently of one another.

From Science Magazine ● May 31, 2023

A follow-up survey re-interviewed 806 Black respondents May 18-20; results for that subsample have an error margin of 4.5 points.

From Washington Post ● May 21, 2022

That number more than doubled, from 11 percent to 25 percent of the anti-death-penalty subsample.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2014

Tag sequence counts were subsampled to 5,000 observations.

From Nature ● Oct. 31, 2017

For each environment, the observation tables were randomly subsampled to 50, 500, 5,000, and 50,000 sequences per sample.

From Nature ● Oct. 31, 2017

Because of the huge excess of coverage generated, this data set was subsampled to 400,000 paired reads before aligning to the EM_079517 reference sequence using BWA-MEM22.

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016

In order to define more clearly the optimum glycerol level, several ejaculates of semen were subsampled and portions were frozen after the addition of yolk-citrate extender and glycerol in varying quantities.

From Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by Friedman, M. E.