SAMPLING RATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sampling rate mean? 

• SAMPLING RATE (noun)
  The noun SAMPLING RATE has 1 sense:

1. (telecommunication) the frequency of sampling per unit time

  Familiarity information: SAMPLING RATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAMPLING RATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(telecommunication) the frequency of sampling per unit time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("sampling rate" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Domain category:

telecom; telecommunication ((often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sampling rate"):

Nyquist rate ((telecommunication) the lowest sampling rate that will permit accurate reconstruction of a sampled analog signal)

 Context examples 

A frequency equal to half the sampling rate used in digitizing a continuously varying process.

(Nyquist Frequency, NCI Thesaurus)