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specimen |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Specimen \Spec"i*men\, n. [L., fr specere to look to behold. See {Spy}.] A part or small portion, of anything or one of a number of things intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art. Syn: Sample; model; pattern. Usage: {Specimen}, {Sample}. A specimen is a representative of the class of things to which it belongs; as a specimen of photography. A sample is a part of the thing itself designed to show the quality of the whole; as a sample of sugar or of broadcloth. A cabinet of minerals consists of specimens; if a part be broken off from any one of these it is a sample of the mineral to which it belongs. ``Several persons have exhibited specimens of this art before multitudes of beholders.'' --Addison. ``I design this but for a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss.'' --Woodward. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: specimen n 1: an example regarded as typical of its class 2: a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes; "they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis"
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