Population

/ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/ · noun

Meaning

The people living within a political or geographical boundary..

Definitions by Sense

1. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
2. (by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
3. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
4. (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
5. (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
6. (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
7. (prison) General population.

Example Sentences

The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!

“Panicology” considers the evidence on both sides of a large number of worries that have beset the industrialized world in modern times, including the “population crisis” (now one of underpopulation that threatens the wealth and health of aging populations in countries like Italy and Russia)[…]

India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.

The town’s population is only 243.

population explosion; population growth

A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.

Within and among populations of grindelias, some morphologic traits appear to vary more from plant to plant than in most genera of composites.

Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.

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• populations
• pop'n

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