This is the 12277th most frequent French word.
échantillonner
To sample or take a sample.
Used in a technical context to refer to selecting or measuring parts of a dataset or signal for analysis.
L'ingénieur doit échantillonner les données provenant du capteur.
The engineer must sample the data from the sensor.
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.