Synonyms of the word

sampling

• v. present participle of sample.
• n. The process or technique of obtaining a representative sample.
• n. A sample.
• n. (statistics) The analysis of a group by determining the characteristics of a significant percentage of…
• n. (signal processing) The measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order…
• n. (music) Electronically splicing pieces of previously recorded sound as part of a composition, especially…

choice

• n. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
• n. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
• n. Anything that can be chosen.
• n. (usually with the) The best or most preferable part.
• n. (obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
• n. (obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
• adj. Especially good or preferred.
• adj. (slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
• adj. (obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.

distribution

• n. An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
• n. An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
• n. (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including…
• n. The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
• n. Anything distributed; portion; share.
• n. The result of distributing; arrangement.
• n. (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable…
• n. (computing) A set of bundled software components; distro.
• n. (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
• n. (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors…
• n. (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
• n. (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the…
• n. (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder…
• n. (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property…

measure

• n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
• n. The act or result of measuring.
• n. Metrical rhythm.
• n. A course of action.
• v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
• v. To estimate the unit size of something.
• v. To judge, value, or appraise.
• v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
• v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
• v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
• v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

measurement

• n. The act of measuring.
• n. Magnitude (or extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.

measuring

• v. present participle of measure.
• n. Act of measurement.

mensuration

• n. The act or process of measuring; measurement.
• n. (mathematics) The study of measurement, especially the derivation and use of algebraic formulae to measure…
• n. (music) A 13th century system for governing rhythmic relationships in music that was a precursor to the…
• n. (forestry) The use of quantitative measurements of forest stand to determine stand timber volume, productivity,…

option

• n. One of a set of choices that can be made.
• n. The freedom or right to choose.
• n. (finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can…
• n. (graphical user interface) A button on a screen used to select an action (often "menu option").
• v. To purchase an option on something.
• v. (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.

pick

• n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
• n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
• n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
• n. A choice; ability to choose.
• n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
• n. (basketball) A screen.
• n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
• n. (American football) An interception.
• n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
• n. (baseball) A pickoff.
• n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
• n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
• n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
• n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
• n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
• n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
• v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
• v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
• v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
• v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
• v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
• v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
• v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
• v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
• v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
• v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
• v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
• v. To steal; to pilfer.
• v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
• v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

sample

• n. A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality…
• n. (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide…
• n. (cooking) A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
• n. (business) A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for…
• n. (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in…
• n. (obsolete) Example; pattern.
• v. (transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.
• v. (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
• v. (music, transitive) To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
• v. (transitive, computer graphics) To make or show something similar to a sample.

selection

• n. The process or act of selecting.
• n. Something selected.
• n. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
• n. A musical piece.
• n. (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.