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pop·u·la·tion  (ppy-lshn)
n.
1.
a. All of the people inhabiting a specified area.
b. The total number of such people.
2. The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.
3. The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants.
4. Ecology All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat.
5. Statistics The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken. Also called universe.

population
Noun
1. all the inhabitants of a place
2. the number of such inhabitants
3. all the people of a particular class in a place: the bulk of the rural population lives in poverty
4. Ecology a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a given area: a population of grey seals

population  (ppy-lshn)
A group of individuals of the same species occupying a particular geographic area. Populations may be relatively small and closed, as on an island or in a valley, or they may be more diffuse and without a clear boundary between them and a neighboring population of the same species. For species that reproduce sexually, the members of a population interbreed either exclusively with members of their own population or, where populations intergrade, to a greater degree than with members of other populations. See also deme.
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Noun1.populationpopulation - the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
home front - the civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war
2.population - a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
overpopulation - too much population
3.population - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
subpopulation - a population that is part of a larger population
aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
4.population - the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.); "people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"; "the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"
integer, whole number - any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero; "an integer is a number that is not a fraction"
5.population - the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
colonisation, colonization, settlement - the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"

population
noun inhabitants, people, community, society, residents, natives, folk, occupants, populace, denizens, citizenry
Translations
population [pɔpjuˈleɪʃən] npoblación f
population [pɔpjuˈleɪʃən] npopulation f
population [pɔpjuˈleɪʃən] nBevölkerung f [of a species] → Zahl f, Population f;
a prison population of 44,000 → (eine Zahl von) 44.000 Gefängnisinsassen;
the civilian population → die Zivilbevölkerung
population [pɔpjuˈleɪʃən] npopolazione f


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New York, whose population is to that of South Carolina as six to five, has little more than one third of the number of representatives.
These tables were based upon weekly reports showing the average of deaths in each 1,000 population for a year.
It is certainly a very remarkable fact, that one of the most efficient advocates of the slave population, now before the public, is a fugitive slave, in the person of FREDERICK DOUGLASS; and that the free colored population of the United States are as ably represented by one of their own number, in the per- son of CHARLES LENOX REMOND, whose eloquent appeals have extorted the highest applause of multi- tudes on both sides of the Atlantic.
 
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