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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 is the difference between a population and a sexual population?

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   What is population noun?

   • Definition of population noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary [countable + singular or plural verb, uncountable] all the people who live in a particular area, city or country; the total number of people who live there One third of the world’s population consumes/consume two thirds of the world’s resources.

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