resample

verb

re·​sam·​ple (ˌ)rē-ˈsam-pəl How to pronounce resample (audio)
resampled; resampling

transitive verb

: to take a sample of or from (something) again
Health officials are resampling the water … after very high bacteria results came back this week.FOX 4 (Cape Coral, Florida)

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Reznor and Ross resampled and processed the original cue with tonal and textural shifts to mirror the deepening relationship between the two central characters. Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024 Days later, the city announced that resampling from 24 of the homes that had high lead levels found only two still above the federal action threshold — a drop that the NRDC says is almost impossible in less than two months. Kyla Guilfoil, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024 Hardware inputs and color groups can be routed to the master bus or an infinite number of buses via discrete send knobs that are either pre- or post-fader, or other color groups that can resample separate audio sources that are merged into a single color group and loop. Pete Cottell, WIRED, 2 May 2024 Representation bias can be partially handled by resampling the data to represent different groups equally. Zehra Cataltepe, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1821, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of resample was in 1821

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“Resample.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resample. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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