Found 4 items, similar to Specimen.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: specimen
contoh
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: specimen
contoh, model, percobaan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: specimen
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”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Specimen
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 a person's blood; a
specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
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.
[1913 Webster]