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Sampling vs Null - What's the difference?

sampling | null |

As nouns the difference between sampling and null

is that sampling is the process or technique of obtaining a representative sample while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb sampling

is .

sampling

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the process or technique of obtaining a representative sample
  • a sample
  • (statistics) the analysis of a group by determining the characteristics of a significant percentage of its members chosen at random
  • (signal processing) the measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order to convert it to digital form
  • (music) a technique for electronically splicing pieces of previously recorded sound as part of a composition
  • Derived terms

    * sampling rate * sampling frequency

    Anagrams

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----