Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. All of the people inhabiting a specified area.
- n. The total number of such people.
- n. The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.
- n. The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants.
- n. Ecology All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat.
- n. Statistics The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken. Also called universe.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or process of populating or peopling: as, the rapid population of the country still continues.
- n. The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country, county, city, or other locality: as, the population has increased 20,000 in four years; also, a part of the inhabitants in any way distinguished from the rest: as, the German population of New York.
- n. The state of a locality with regard to the number of its inhabitants; populousness.
- n. In biometry, a species, race, variety, or group of organisms that can be differentiated from other groups.
Wiktionary
- n. The people living within a political or geographical boundary
- n. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
- n. biology A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area
- n. statistics A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn
- n. computing The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
- n. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the people who inhabit a territory or state
- 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.)
- n. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
- n. the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
- n. a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
Etymologies
- From Late Latin populatio ("a people, multitude"), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“˜population genetics™, ˜fitness™ refers either to the abilities of the different genotypes in a population to leave offspring, or to the measures of those abilities, represented by the variable W.”
“But the world is sure to have a growing population for quite some time because of population momentum (Sen,”
“You say that "no independent Western European nation similar to Wales in population is as poor as Wales".”
“Based on this year's census results — which showed a continuing shift in population from the Rust Belt to the South and West — a number of Midwestern states are slated to lose seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
The Wall Street Journal: In Midwest, Republicans Capitalize on Economic Woes
“If you want to bring up welfare states … look up Alaska, which ranks 47th in population is number 1 in acquiring federal earmarks.”
Think Progress » Portugal’s parliament approves same-sex marriage.
“Under our unimaginable economic regime all increase in population is a menace.”
“There are 34 provinces, each ranging in population from a low of 300,000 to a high of 3 million.”
“Right, the city of Los Angeles, which just hit 4 million in population, is much denser today than most people realize.”
“This accelerating rate of increase is what is meant by the term population explosion.”
“Puerto Vallarta is quite a unique town that has maintained its quaint atmosphere regardless of its huge rise in population from the early seventies to today, especially the down town area and south of town.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘population’.
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vacation, suggestion, donation, condition, education, examination, federation, generation, imagination, invention, operation, pollution and 166 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
nonparametric, nonparametric sta..., multivariate anal..., partial different..., multivariate, topology, stochastic, differential equa..., linear algebra, harmonic analysis, applied mathematics, combinatorial and 205 more...
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 340 more...
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Psychology
stockholm syndrome, stereotype, ergonomics, human-computer in..., prejudice, neo-luddism, stress, trauma, psychopathology, psychotic, neurosis, depression and 180 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Evolution
darwin, hms beagle, galapagos, evolution, natural selection, select for, confer, survival advantage, environmental pre..., mutation, genome, homozygous and 193 more...
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Prosie: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Ad...
(Given Saturday, March 4, 1865, Washington, D.C.)
Fellow-Countrymen:
At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended a...with all nations, among ourselves, a just and lastin..., cherish, achieve, to do all, for his widow and..., to care for him w..., to bind up the na..., let us strive on ..., with firmness in ..., with charity for all and 169 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
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European World Systems
europe, colonization, defense, barter, feudalism, gunpowder, technology, guns, domination, lords, monarchs, transition and 250 more...
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nuwerdna's Words
smegma, defenestration, nubile, zeitgeist, stochastic, ergodic, stability, maudlin, recursion, aversion, agent, set and 239 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for population.
Prolagus In statistics, the group of measurements (not organisms) about which one wishes to draw conclusions.
In the words of statistician Jerrold H. Zar: If a study is concerned with the blood-glucose concentration in three-year-old children, then the blood-glucose levels in all children of that age are the population of interest. Oct 14, 2010
reesetee Eeew. Oct 5, 2007
oroboros Shouldn't be a problem if the lines were appropriately alternated for the purpose of procreation doggy-style, yes? It would be a greater problem, I would think, when the waddling gave way to birthing, however! Oct 5, 2007
yarb That's all very well about China's population,
but walking eight-abreast, how would they cope with copulation? Oct 4, 2007
oroboros I've seen it written that:
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Now, whatcha thnik? Oct 4, 2007