sampling
sampling
nounDefinition of SAMPLING
a number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole <a sampling of shoppers said they preferred fresh orange juice over frozen>
Related Words case, example, exemplar, exemplification, illustration, instance, representative, specimen; archetype, classic, locus classicus, paradigm, prototype; microcosm
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