Sample vs Parameter - What's the difference?
sample | parameter |
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.
(statistics) A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
(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.
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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.
(mathematics, physics) A variable kept constant during an experiment, calculation or similar.
(programming) An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time (formal parameter) .
(programming) An actual value given to such a formal parameter (argument or actual parameter) .
A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
(geometry) In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
(crystallography) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
(crystallography) The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
As an initialism sample
is (emergency medicine) initialism of signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past pertinent history, last oral intake, events leading to present illness .As a noun parameter is
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Noun
(en noun)- "I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss." -Woodward.
- "...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,
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- a sample to the youngest
- Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight / His sample followed.
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* specimen * exampleVerb
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Alternative forms
* parametreNoun
(en noun)- Roughly, a tuple of arguments could be thought of as a vector, whereas a tuple of parameters''' could be thought of as a covector (i.e., linear functional). When a function is called, a '''parameter tuple becomes "bound" to an argument tuple, allowing the function instance itself to be computed to yield a return value. This would be roughly analogous to applying a covector to a vector (by taking their dot product (or, rather, matrix-product of row vector and column vector)) to obtain a scalar.
- The parameter of the principal axis of a conic section is called the latus rectum.