Definition: Population
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Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (a people, multitude), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus. Doublet of poblacion.
Noun
population (plural populations)
- The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
- The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
- The people with a given characteristic.
- India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
- A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
- The village has a population of only 243.
- (biology) 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.
- (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
- (computing) 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.
Derived terms
- depopulation
- general population
- overpopulation
- populational
- population density
- populationism
- populationless
- repopulation
- underpopulation
Related terms
- popular
- populate
- populous
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