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Definitions for Population
[1] the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
[2] the body of inhabitants of a place: The population of the city opposes the addition of fluorides to the drinking water.
[3] the number or body of inhabitants in a place belonging to a specific social, cultural, socioeconomic, ethnic, or racial subgroup: the native population; the working-class population.
[4] Statistics . any finite or infinite aggregation of individuals, not necessarily animate, subject to a statistical study.
[5] Ecology . the assemblage of a specific type of organism living in a given area. all the individuals of one species in a given area.
[6] the act or process of populating: Population of the interior was hampered by dense jungles.
[7] (sometimes functioning as plural) all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place
[8] the number of such inhabitants
[9] (sometimes functioning as plural) all the people of a particular race or class in a specific area the Chinese population of San Francisco
[10] the act or process of providing a place with inhabitants; colonization
[11] ecology a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a given area
[12] 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
[13] Also called: universe statistics the entire finite or infinite aggregate of individuals or items from which samples are drawn
Words related to Population
society, populace, people, community, culture, state, public, folk, citizenry, dwellers, residents
Words nearby Population
popular vote, popularity, popularize, popularly, populate, population, population control, population explosion, population genetics, population inversion, population parameter
Origin of Population
First recorded in 1570–80, population is from the Late Latin word populātiōn- (stem of populātiō ). See populate, -ion
Words that may be confused with Population
populace, population, populous
Other words from Population
pop·u·la·tion·al , adjective
pop·u·la·tion·less , adjective
re·pop·u·la·tion , noun
sub·pop·u·la·tion , noun
su·per·pop·u·la·tion , noun
Synonyms for Population
community, culture, people, populace, public, society, state, citizenry, denizens, dwellers, folk, natives, residents