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Population

//ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

    "The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!"

  2. 2
    the act of populating (causing to live in a place) wordnet
  3. 3
    The people with a given characteristic. broadly

    "India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world."

  4. 4
    (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn wordnet
  5. 5
    A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

    "The town’s population is only 243."

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  1. 6
    a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area wordnet
  2. 7
    A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.; The number of living cells in a pattern.

    "This is one of several known "sawtooth" patterns, in which the population is unbounded but does not tend to infinity."

  3. 8
    the people who inhabit a territory or state wordnet
  4. 9
    A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

    "A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses."

  5. 10
    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.) wordnet
  6. 11
    A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.

    "[…]it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained."

  7. 12
    The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

    "John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete."

  8. 13
    General population.

    "I would like to say something about the place I am doing time at. When I was placed in population, I met another woman and we immediately became good friends."

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus, equivalent to populate + -ion. Doublet of poblacion.

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