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pop⋅u⋅la⋅tion

  [pop-yuh-ley-shuhn]
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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.
5. 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

Related forms:
pop⋅u⋅la⋅tion⋅al, adjective
pop⋅u⋅la⋅tion⋅less, adjective
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Main Entry: pop·u·la·tion
Pronunciation: "päp-y&-'lA-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : the whole number of people orinhabitants in a country or region
2 a : a body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common b (1) : the organisms inhabiting aparticular locality (2) : a group of interbreeding organisms that represents the level of organization at which speciation begins
3 : a group of individual persons,objects, or items from which samples are taken for statistical measurement
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population pop·u·la·tion (pŏp'yə-lā'shən)
n.

  1. The total number of people inhabiting a specific area.

  2. The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken.

  3. All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat.

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population   (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.
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