Meaning of POPULATION
| Pronunciation: | | `pâpyu'leyshun
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- [n] the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
- [n] (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
- [n] a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
- [n] the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
- [n] 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"
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| | See Also: | | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, colonisation, colonization, group, grouping, integer, overpopulation, overspill, people, settlement, subpopulation, whole number | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pop`u*la"tion\, n. [L. populatio: cf. F.
population.]
1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of
inhabitants.
2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country,
or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
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| | Definition: | | A group of organisms of the same species occupying a particular geographic region. |
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| | Definition: | | A local group of organisms belonging to the same species and capable of interbreeding. |
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