population

Meanings

Plural: populations

Noun

• the people who inhabit a territory or state
  • "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
• a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
  • "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
• (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
  • "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
• 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"
• the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
  • "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
• The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
• The people with a given characteristic.
• A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or 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 number of living cells in a pattern.
• A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
• A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
• The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
• General population.

Synonyms

universe

Related Words

popular, populate, populous