Population vs. Sample

Populationnoun

The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

Populationnoun

By extension, the people with a given characteristic.

Populationnoun

A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

Populationnoun

(biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

Populationnoun

(statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.

Populationnoun

(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

Populationnoun

The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

Populationnoun

The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.

Populationnoun

the people who inhabit a territory or state;

Populationnoun

a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area;

Populationnoun

(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn;

Populationnoun

the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.);

Populationnoun

the act of populating (causing to live in a place);

Populationnoun

all the inhabitants of a particular place

Populationnoun

a particular group or type of people living in a place

Populationnoun

the extent to which an area is or has been populated

Populationnoun

the action of populating a place.

Populationnoun

a community of animals, plants, or humans among whose members interbreeding occurs

Populationnoun

a finite or infinite collection of items under consideration.

Populationnoun

each of three groups (designated I, II, and III) into which stars can be approximately divided on the basis of their manner of formation

Population

In biology, a population is a number of all the organisms of the same group or species who live in a particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals from other areas.In sociology, population refers to a collection of humans.

Samplenoun

A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen

Samplenoun

(statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.

Samplenoun

(cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.

Samplenoun

(business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.

Samplenoun

(music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.

Samplenoun

(obsolete) Example; pattern.

Sampleverb

(transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of

Sampleverb

To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.

Sampleverb

To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.

Sampleverb

To make or show something similar to a sample.

Samplenoun

Example; pattern.

Samplenoun

A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.

Sampleverb

To make or show something similar to; to match.

Sampleverb

To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.

Samplenoun

a small part of something intended as representative of the whole

Samplenoun

items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population

Samplenoun

all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

Sampleverb

take a sample of;

Samplenoun

a small part or quantity intended to show what the whole is like

Samplenoun

a small amount of a food or other commodity, especially one given to a prospective customer

Samplenoun

a specimen taken for scientific testing or analysis

Samplenoun

a portion drawn from a population, the study of which is intended to lead to statistical estimates of the attributes of the whole population

Samplenoun

a sound or piece of music created by sampling

Sampleverb

take a sample or samples of (something) for analysis

Sampleverb

try the qualities of (food or drink) by tasting it

Sampleverb

get a representative experience of

Sampleverb

ascertain the momentary value of (an analogue signal) many times a second so as to convert the signal to digital form

Sampleverb

record or extract (a small piece of music or sound) digitally for reuse as part of a composition or song