sample

noun

Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite

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Senses

a small part of something intended as representative of the whole

take a sample of

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items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population

all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

Sense	Relation	Group	Word
1	derivation	Related & opposite	sample
1	hypernym	Types & categories	example
1	hyponym	Types & categories	coupon
1	hyponym	Types & categories	cross section
1	hyponym	Types & categories	grab sample
1	hyponym	Types & categories	random sample
1	hyponym	Types & categories	tasting
2	derivation	Related & opposite	savoring
2	derivation	Related & opposite	sampler
2	derivation	Related & opposite	test
2	derivation	Related & opposite	sample
2	derivation	Related & opposite	tasting
2	derivation	Related & opposite	mouthful
2	derivation	Related & opposite	sampler
2	derivation	Related & opposite	taster
2	derivation	Related & opposite	attempter
2	hypernym	Types & categories	ingest
2	hyponym	Types & categories	degust
3	domain topic	Related & opposite	statistics
3	hypernym	Types & categories	distribution
3	hyponym	Types & categories	acceptance sampling
3	hyponym	Types & categories	random sample
3	hyponym	Types & categories	stratified sample
4	hypernym	Types & categories	natural object
4	hyponym	Types & categories	specimen
4	hyponym	Types & categories	core