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   Pop·u·la·tion

   /ˌpäpyəˈlāSH(ə)n/

   

   noun

   • 1. all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country: "the island has a population of about 78,000"
   • ▪ a particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country: "a city with a large student population"
   • ▪ the specified extent or degree to which an area is or has been populated: "areas of sparse population"
   • ▪ the action of populating an area.
   • ▪ a community of animals, plants, or humans among whose members interbreeding occurs.
   • ▪ a finite or infinite collection of items under consideration.
   • ▪ each of three groups (designated I, II, and III) into which stars can be approximately divided on the basis of their manner of formation.

   Word Origin late 16th century (denoting an inhabited place): from late Latin populatio(n-), from the verb populare, from populus ‘people’.

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   What does population mean?

   • : the whole number of people living in a country or region : the act or process of populating : a group of one or more species of organisms living in a particular area or habitat : the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region : a body of persons or individuals having a quality or characteristic in common

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   What is a population in sociology?

   • the number or body of inhabitants in a place belonging to a specific social, cultural, socioeconomic, ethnic, or racial subgroup: the Native population the working-class population. Statistics. any finite or infinite aggregation of individuals, not necessarily animate, subject to a statistical study. Ecology.

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   What does populate mean?

   • the quality or state of having or showing a lack of experience or judgment. First recorded in 1570–80, population is from the Late Latin word populātiōn- (stem of populātiō ). See populate, -ion Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

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   What is the difference between a population and a sexual population?

   • In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals from other areas.

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   Population is the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region, or the total of individuals occupying an area or making up a whole. It can also refer to the act or process of populating, a group of organisms having a quality or characteristic in common, or a group of individuals from which samples are taken for statistical measurement.

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   Population. For other uses, see Population (disambiguation). Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the size of a resident population within a given jurisdiction.

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   Population is the number of people living in a particular country, area, or place. It can also refer to all the people or animals of a particular type or group who live in one country, area, or place. See examples, synonyms, and related words for population in different contexts and languages.

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   Population is the number of people living in a particular country, area, or place. It can also refer to all the people or animals of a particular type or group who live in one country, area, or place. See examples, synonyms, and related words for population in different contexts and languages.

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   Population is the total number or body of people or organisms in a place or area. Learn the origin, synonyms, and usage of population in sentences and statistics.

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   Learn the definition, pronunciation and usage of the word population, which means all the people or animals living in a particular area or the number of them. See examples, synonyms and related words.

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    Learn the meaning of population as a noun, with examples of usage and synonyms. Find out the difference between population and related terms such as growth, control, and explosion.