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sample [′sam·pəl] (science and technology) Representative fraction of material tested or analyzed in order to determine the nature, composition, and percentage of specified constituents, and possibly their reactivity. (statistics) A selection of a certain collection from a larger collection.
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| I suppose this child is about a fair sample of what thousands of your heathen are. We may form some judgment of this scheme of military coercion from a sample given by Thuanus. Meantime the old salt ("ex-coasting skipper" was writ large all over his person) had hobbled up alongside in his bumpy, shiny boots, and, waving an arm, short and thick like the flipper of a seal, terminated by a paw red as an uncooked beef-steak, addressed the poop in a muffled, faint, roaring voice, as if a sample of every North-Sea fog of his life had been permanently lodged in his throat: "Haul 'em round, Mr. |
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