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Sample vs Ergodic - What's the difference?

sample | ergodic |

As a noun sample

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

As a verb sample

is to make or show something similar to; to match.

As an adjective ergodic is

(mathematics|physics) of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to previously experienced state.

sample

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A part of anything taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.
    • "I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss." -Woodward.
  • (statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
    • "...it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained." Francis Galton et al. (1883). Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.
  • (cooking) a small piece of food for tasting, typically given away for free
  • (business) a small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free
  • (music) Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording, used to emphasize a particular point by implying a certain context.
  • (obsolete) Example; pattern.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a sample to the youngest
  • * Fairfax
    • Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight / His sample followed.

    Synonyms

    * specimen * example

    Verb

  • To make or show something similar to; to match.
  • To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wool, cloth.
  • (signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
  • To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new song.

    • Anagrams

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    ergodic

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia ergodic) (en adjective)
  • (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to previously experienced state.
  • (statistics, engineering) Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.

    • Derived terms

    * ergodic hypothesis * ergodic theory

    References