sample vs acceptance sampling

acceptance sampling vs sample

sample and acceptance sampling both are nouns.

sample is a verb but acceptance sampling is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sample	Yes	No	Yes	No
acceptance sampling	Yes	No	No	No

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

sample: items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
acceptance sampling: a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected

Other hyponyms of sample include random sample, proportional sample, representative sample, stratified sample.

sample (noun)	acceptance sampling (noun)
a small part of something intended as representative of the whole	a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected
items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

sample (verb)	acceptance sampling (verb)
take a sample of

Difference between sample and acceptance sampling

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