abtasten — meaning in English

English meaning

• sample noun A small portion of something given or shown to represent the whole.
• scan verb To look over something quickly, often searching for particular information.

Senses

abtasten is used for these senses in English:

• palpate To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medical) in reference to an area or organ of the human body.
• pat down (US, informal, transitive) To frisk; to check someone's body for concealed items, especially weapons.
• sample (transitive, signal processing) To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
• scan (computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.

sample — full definition

1. noun A small portion of something given or shown to represent the whole.
2. noun A subset of a population studied in order to draw conclusions about the whole group.
3. noun A short clip of one recording reused inside another piece of music.
4. verb To try or test a small amount of something.
5. verb To take a short recording from an existing piece of music and reuse it in a new one.

scan — full definition

1. verb To look over something quickly, often searching for particular information.
2. verb To examine something closely or systematically, especially using a device or medical equipment.
3. verb To convert a physical document or image into digital form using a scanner.
4. noun The result of a scanning process, especially a medical image.

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