measurement vs sampling

sampling vs measurement

measurement and sampling both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
measurement	Yes	No	No	No
sampling	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sampling is a hyponym of measurement; that is, sampling is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than measurement:

measurement: the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
sampling: measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)

Other hyponyms of measurement include seismography, quantitative analysis, quantitative chemical analysis, actinometry, algometry, anemography, anemometry, angulation, anthropometry, arterial blood gases, audiometry, bathymetry, plumbing, calorimetry, cephalometry, densitometry, dosimetry, fetometry, foetometry, gravimetry, hydrometry, hypsography, hypsometry, mental measurement, micrometry, observation, pelvimetry, photometry, quantification, radioactive dating, meter reading, reading, sounding, sound ranging, scaling, spirometry, surveying, telemetry, thermometry, thermogravimetry, tonometry, viscometry, viscosimetry, weigh-in, audience measurement, pycnometry.

measurement (noun)	sampling (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	(statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
	measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
	items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population

Difference between measurement and sampling

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