re population
yəˈleɪ 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.
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population (ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (sometimes functioning as plural) all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place |
| 2. | the number of such inhabitants |
| 3. | (sometimes functioning as plural) all the people of a particular race or class in a specific area: the Chinese population of San Francisco |
| 4. | the act or process of providing a place with inhabitants; colonization |
| 5. | ecology a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a given area |
| 6. | 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 |
| 7. | statistics Also called: universe the entire finite or infinite aggregate of individuals or items from which samples are drawn |
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Word Origin & History
population
1570s, from L.L. populationem (c.470, nom. populatio) "a people, multitude," as if a noun of action from L. populus "people." Population explosion is first attested 1953.
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Science Dictionary
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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