An accurately balanced lever-scale for weighing very light objects.

A room for exhibiting samples of goods for sale. / (slang, dated) A grogshop.

plural of core sample

A cylindrical section of a naturally occurring substance, typically obtained by drilling into the substance, for example sediment or rock, with a core drill.

(statistics) Given a random sample mathbf x₁,…, mathbf x_N from an n-dimensional random variable mathbf X, a mean defined as

(statistics) A sample randomly taken from an investigated population.

plural of sample function

(metalworking) A sample taken for assay from a molten metallic mass by pouring a portion into water to granulate it.

plural of shot sample

(statistics) Any set of possible values to which the appropriate random variables determined by a stochastic process might map a given point in the sample space, taken over all values of the index space (often regarded as time).