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pop·u·la·tion

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–noun

1.	the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.

2.	the body of inhabitants of a place: The population of the city opposes the addition of fluorides to the drinking water.

3.	the number or body of inhabitants of a particular race or class in a place: the native population; the working-class population.

4.	Statistics. any finite or infinite aggregation of individuals, not necessarily animate, subject to a statistical study.

Ecology.

a.	the assemblage of a specific type of organism living in a given area.

b.	all the individuals of one species in a given area.

6.	the act or process of populating: Population of the interior was hampered by dense jungles.

[Origin: 1570–80; < LL populātiōn- (s. of populātiō). See populate, -ion

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—Related forms

pop·u·la·tion·al, adjective

pop·u·la·tion·less, adjective

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pop·u·la·tion Audio Help (pŏp'yə-lā'shən) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. All of the people inhabiting a specified area.
2. The total number of such people.
The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.
The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants.
Ecology All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat.
Statistics The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken. Also called universe.

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population
noun
1.	the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
2.	a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
3.	(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
4.	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"
5.	the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"

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ˌpopuˈlation noun

the people living in a particular country, area etc
Example: the population of London is 8 million; a rapid increase in population

Arabic:	سُكّان
Chinese (Simplified):	人口，（全体）居民
Chinese (Traditional):	人口，(全體)居民
Czech:	obyvatelstvo
Danish:	befolkning
Dutch:	bevolking
Estonian:	rahvastik
Finnish:	väestö
French:	population
German:	die Bevölkerung
Greek:	πληθυσμός
Hungarian:	lakosság
Icelandic:	íbúar; íbúafjöldi
Indonesian:	penduduk
Italian:	popolazione

Japanese:	人口
Korean:	인구, 주민수
Latvian:	iedzīvotāji; iedzīvotāju skaits
Lithuanian:	gyventojai, gyventojų skaičius
Norwegian:	befolkning
Polish:	ludność
Portuguese (Brazil):	população
Portuguese (Portugal):	população
Romanian:	populaţie
Russian:	население
Slovak:	obyvateľstvo
Slovenian:	prebivalstvo
Spanish:	población
Swedish:	befolkning, folkmängd
Turkish:	nüfus

See also: populous, populate

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population Audio Help (pŏp'yə-lā'shən) Pronunciation Key
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.