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Noun: population `pópyu'leyshun- The people who inhabit a territory or state
"the population seemed to be well fed and clothed" - A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
"they hired hunters to keep down the deer population" - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
"it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
- universe - 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" - The act of populating (causing to live in a place)
"he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
Derived forms: populations See also: populate Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, colonisation [Brit], colonization, group, grouping, integer, people, settlement, whole number Encyclopedia: Population Population, Theories of |