floor sample

A piece of merchandise that is used as a display or demonstration model. Also called floor model.

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floor′ sam`ple

an appliance, piece of furniture, etc., that has been used for display and is offered at a reduced price.

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"With us here, retailers only need a floor sample and then call us with the order," he said.

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Rather than use a spatial model to capture spatial heterogeneity of spores within a room, we simply assume that the floor samples are log normally distributed, where 95% of within-room samples at a fixed point in time are within 1 order-of-magnitude (i.e., within 1/[square root of 10] and [square root of 10] of the median), which is consistent with the sample variability in the Hart Senate Office Building (8).