sample

1 a number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole based on a sample of the menu items, we decided that this was the best restaurant in town Synonyms cross section, sampler, sampling, selection, slice Related Words case, example, exemplar, exemplification, illustration, instance, representative, specimen; archetype, classic, locus classicus, paradigm, prototype; microcosm

2 one of a group or collection that shows what the whole is like this vase is a sample of the high-quality glassware that the glassblowers can produce Synonyms case, exemplar, exemplification, illustration, instance, prototype, representative, example, specimenRelated Words archetype, classic, locus classicus, paradigm; cross section, microcosm; evidence, indication, manifestation, sign