🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Stichprobe

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ʃtɪçˌpʁoːbə

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sampling/ˈsæm.plɪŋ/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die Ergebnisse basieren auf einer repräsentativen Stichprobe."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The act, process, or technique of selecting a representative part of a population for the purpose of determining parameters or characteristics of the whole population.

    "Quality control relies heavily on rigorous random sampling of manufactured goods."
  2. 2

    The technique of digitally encoding an analog sound and reusing it in a different composition or piece of music.

    "The electronic track featured a prominent vocal sampling from a 1970s soul record."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'ensample', meaning an example or pattern, which stems from Old French 'essample' and ultimately from Latin 'exemplum'. Over centuries, the term evolved to denote the process of taking a representative subset from a larger population or the reuse of a portion of a sound recording in a new track.

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