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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
- 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 Word Forms
- DZu·tDz· adjective
- DZu·tDz· adjective
- pDZ··tDz noun
- ܲpDZ··tDz noun
- p·DZu·tDz noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of population1
Example Sentences
Like many wealthy countries, the nation is struggling to cope with a growing population which is, on average, getting older and sicker.
How would that affect Covered California and the state’s population more broadly, given that more than 1 in 3 Californians are on Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid?
I think if that were a Jeopardy question posed to the total world population, you might get 500 people who could answer it correctly.
That it could come in part because of a surge of support in Ontario and Quebec - the eastern provinces where so much of the population is concentrated - only adds to the regional divide.
Surveys of butterflies are important for conservation because they are known as indicator species, meaning rises and falls in their populations can predict the health of the wider ecosystem.
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