This is the 12277th most frequent French word.
échantillonner
To sample or take a sample.
Here, the verb is used metaphorically to mean a selection or extraction of elements for artistic creation.
Pour créer une nouvelle palette de couleurs, l'artiste décide d'échantillonner les teintes du paysage.
To create a new color palette, the artist decides to sample the tones from the landscape.
Refers to capturing audio segments to reuse or manipulate within musical production.
En musique électronique, les producteurs peuvent échantillonner des sons pour composer.
In electronic music, producers can sample sounds to compose.
Used in a technical context to refer to selecting or measuring parts of a dataset or signal for analysis.