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scan
Verb
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An act of looking through something quickly.
I scanned through the page to find the information I was looking for.
sampling
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noun
(statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
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noun
measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
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noun
(= sample distribution)
items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population