sample signal meaning

Noun: sample    sãmpul A small part of something intended as representative of the whole  Items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about...

[Architecture] A sample of material which is obtained by blending two or more individual samples.

[Architecture] Same as core, 9 .

Noun: grab sample A single sample or measurement taken at a specific time or over as short a period as feasible Derived forms: grab samples Type of: sample

[Electronics] A measurement obtained by INSTANTANEOUS SAMPLING.

noun   A group of people of the same age, sex, income, etc, as another group, used as a sample to test products

[Architecture] A small piece of material, which is representative of the whole, that a contractor submits to the architect for approval; includes color, finish, and/or texture.

[Finance] The arithmetic average; that is, the sum of the observations divided by the number of observations.

[Medicine] Studies in which a number of subjects are selected from all subjects in a defined population. Conclusions based on sample results may be attributed only to the population sample...

Noun: proportional sample The population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum - stratified sample , representative sample Derived forms: prop...