Downsample

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To reduce the sampling rate of (a signal).
  2. 2
    To reduce the sample size of a data set by randomly eliminating data points, typically so that it matches the size of another set.

Etymology

From down + sample.

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