Usually means: Representative portion of a whole.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word sample:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sample: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. sample: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. sample: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sample: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sample, sample: Wordnik
  6. sample: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. SAMPLE, Sample, sample: Wiktionary
  8. sample: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sample: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sample: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sample: Dictionary.com
  12. sample: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. sample: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Sample (disambiguation), Sample (graphics), Sample (material), Sample (medicine), Sample (music), Sample (signal), Sample (statistics), Sample, The Sample: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Sample: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sample: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sample: Rhymezone
  18. sample: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sample: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. sample: Free Dictionary
  21. sample: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sample: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. sample: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Sample: Investopedia
  5. Sample (coal): Energy Dictionary
  6. sample: Legal dictionary
  7. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sample: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Sample: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  3. sample: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sample: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. SAMPLE: Acronym Finder

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Sample: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Statistics (in particular, re-randomisation statistics) (No longer online)
  4. Statistics (No longer online)
  5. Sample: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sample, sample, sample: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. S.A.M.P.L.E, sample: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sampled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.
noun:  (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
noun:  (cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
noun:  (business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
noun:  (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
noun:  (obsolete) Example; pattern.
verb:  (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.
verb:  (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
verb:  (music, transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
verb:  (transitive, computer graphics) To make or show something similar to a sample.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (emergency medicine) Initialism of signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past pertinent history, last oral intake, events leading to present illness.

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