sample
1. A specimen of a whole entity small enough to involve no threat or damage to the whole; an aliquot.
2. A selected subset of a population; a sample may be random or nonrandom (haphazard); representative or nonrepresentative.
Origin: M.E. Ensample, fr. L. Exemplum, example
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