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population
[ pop-yuh-ley-shuhn ]
noun
- the total number of people inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- the body of inhabitants of a place:
The population of the city opposes the addition of fluorides to the drinking water.
- the number or body of inhabitants in a place belonging to a specific social, cultural, socioeconomic, ethnic, or racial subgroup: the working-class population.
the Native population
the working-class population.
- Statistics. any finite or infinite aggregation of individuals, not necessarily animate, subject to a statistical study.
- Ecology.
- the assemblage of a specific type of organism living in a given area.
- all the individuals of one species in a given area.
- the act or process of populating:
Population of the interior was hampered by dense jungles.
population
/ ˌɒʊˈɪʃə /
noun
- sometimes functioning as plural all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place
- the number of such inhabitants
- sometimes functioning as plural all the people of a particular race or class in a specific area
the Chinese population of San Francisco
- the act or process of providing a place with inhabitants; colonization
- ecology a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a given area
- 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
- Also calleduniverse statistics the entire finite or infinite aggregate of individuals or items from which samples are drawn
population
/ ŏ′yə-′ə /
- 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
Other 51Թ Forms
- DZu·tDz· adjective
- DZu·tDz· adjective
- pDZ··tDz noun
- ܲpDZ··tDz noun
- p·DZu·tDz noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of population1
Example Sentences
“After they do their time as of now, we have to release them into the general population, and I believe that is wrong,” he said.
With a population of about 3,600 people, the Falkland Islands is an archipelago located in the South Atlantic Ocean.
A tariff of 29% was imposed on the Norfolk Island, which is also an Australian territory and has a population of about 2,200 people.
Arcadia, with an Asian American population of nearly 60%, is home to many Taiwanese and Chinese immigrants.
Myanmar was already facing a severe humanitarian crisis before the 7.7 magnitude earthquake due to the ongoing civil war there, with the DEC estimating a third of the population is in need of aid.
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