population

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.

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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

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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.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	population - 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" universe 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"

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population

noun inhabitants, people, community, society, residents, natives, folk, occupants, populace, denizens, citizenry

Translations

population [pɔpjuˈleɪʃən] n → población f

population [pɔpjuˈleɪʃən] n → population f

population [pɔpjuˈleɪʃən] n → Bevölkerung 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] n → popolazione f