population
pop·u·la·tion
(pŏp′yə-lā′shən)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 of a given species interacting in a specified area.
5. Statistics The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken. Also called universe.
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population
(ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən)n
1. (sometimes functioning as plural) all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place
2. the number of such inhabitants
3. (sometimes functioning as plural) all the people of a particular race or class in a specific area: the Chinese population of San Francisco.
4. the act or process of providing a place with inhabitants; colonization
5. (Environmental Science) ecology a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a given area
6. (Astronomy) astronomy either of two main groups of stars classified according to age and location. Population I consists of younger metal-rich hot white stars, many occurring in galactic clusters and forming the arms of spiral galaxies. Stars of population II are older, the brightest being red giants, and are found in the centre of spiral and elliptical galaxies in globular clusters
7. (Statistics) statistics Also called: universe the entire finite or infinite aggregate of individuals or items from which samples are drawn
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pop•u•la•tion
(ˌpɒp yəˈleɪ ʃən)n.
1. the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
2. the body of inhabitants of a place.
3. the number or body of inhabitants of a particular race, class, or group in a place: the working-class population.
4. any aggregation of things or individuals subject to statistical study.
5.
a. the assemblage of organisms living in a given area.
b. all the individuals of one species in a given area.
6. the act or process of populating.
[1570–80; < Late Latin]
pop`u•la′tion•al, adj.
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pop·u·la·tion
(pŏp′yə-lā′shən)A group of individuals of the same species occupying a specific habitat, community, or other defined area: the population of turtles in a pond; the elk population in their winter range.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| 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" 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 Bangladesh now has a population of about 100 million.
Quotations
"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio" [Thomas Malthus The Principle of Population]
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Translations
populaceobyvatelstvo
befolkning
väestöväkilukuasukasluku
stanovništvo
lakosság
íbúar; íbúafjöldi
人口
인구
prebivalstvo
befolkninginvånarantalpopulation
ประชากร
dân số
population
[ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən]
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population
[ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən]
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population
population
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populate
(ˈpopjuleit) verb(usually in passive) to fill with people. That part of the world used to be populated by wandering tribes.
ˌpopuˈlation nounthe people living in a particular country, area etc. the population of London is 8 million; a rapid increase in population.
ˈpopulous adjectivefull of people. a populous area.
population is singular: The population of the city increases in the summer .
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population
→ عَدَدُ سُكَّان populace befolkning Bevölkerung πληθυσμός población väestö population stanovništvo popolazione 人口 인구 bevolking befolkning populacja população население befolkning ประชากร nüfus dân số 人口Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
pop·u·la·tion
n. población, habitantes de un área.
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