sampling vs mensuration

mensuration vs sampling

sampling and mensuration both are nouns.

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

As nouns, mensuration is a hypernym of sampling; that is, mensuration is a word with a broader meaning than sampling:

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

Other hypernyms of sampling include measure, measurement, measuring.

sampling (noun)	mensuration (noun)
(statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study	the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
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 sampling and mensuration

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