population
Pronunciation: /ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/
The English word “population” has 8 meanings listed here.
noun
- The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
- The people with a given characteristic.
- A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
- The number of living cells in a pattern.
- A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
- A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
- The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
- General population.
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus, equivalent to populate + -ion. Doublet of poblacion.
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