Pronunciation Noun
population (plural populations)
- The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
- The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
- (by extension) 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 town’s population is only 243.
- population explosion; population growth
- (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.
- 1883, Francis Galton et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269 ↗.
- […] it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.
- 1883, Francis Galton et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269 ↗.
- (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.
- French: population
- German: Bevölkerung
- Italian: popolazione
- Portuguese: população
- Russian: населе́ние
- Spanish: población
- French: population
- German: Population
- Portuguese: população
- Russian: популя́ция
- German: Bevölkerungszahl, Einwohnerzahl
- Portuguese: população
- Russian: населе́ние
- Spanish: población
- French: population
- German: Grundgesamtheit
- Italian: popolazione
- Portuguese: população
- Spanish: población
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