About The Word Population
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Population
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What's The Definition Of Population?
[n] the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
[n] (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population" [n] a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population" [n] the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed" [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.); "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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Population: universe Related Terms | Find terms related to Population: absolute magnitude | anchorage | Beehive | binary star | black hole | body politic | Cepheid variable | citizenry | citizens | colonization | common man | commonwealth | community | community at large | double star | dwarf star | empeoplement | establishment | estate | everybody | Everyman | everyone | everywoman | fixation | fixed star | folk | folks | foundation | general public | gentry | giant star | globular cluster | gravity star | Hertzsprung-Russell diagram | Hyades | inauguration | inhabitants | inhabiting | initiation | installation | installment | investiture | John Doe | lodgment | magnitude | main sequence star | mass-luminosity law | men | Messier catalog | mooring | nation | nationality | neutron star | NGC | nova | open cluster | people | people in general | peoplement | peopling | persons | plantation | Pleiades | polity | populace | populations | Public | pulsar | quasar | quasi-stellar radio source | radio star | red giant star | relative magnitude | settlement | settling | Seven Sisters | sky atlas | society | spectrum-luminosity diagram | star | star catalog | star chart | star cloud | star cluster | state | stellar magnitude | supernova | variable star | white dwarf star | world | you and me See Also | accumulation | aggregation | assemblage | collection | colonisation | colonization | group | grouping | integer | overpopulation | overspill | people | settlement | subpopulation | whole number Population In Webster's Dictionary \Pop`u*la"tion\, n. [L. populatio: cf. F.
population.]
1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of
inhabitants.
2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country,
or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
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