measuring vs sampling

sampling vs measuring

measuring and sampling both are nouns.

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

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

measuring: 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 measuring 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.

measuring (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 measuring and sampling

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