1. Noun
The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
2. Noun
The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
3. noun
The whole group a study is trying to understand.
The complete set of people, objects or observations relevant to a study.
4. Noun
A group of individuals of the same species living in a specific area
5. Noun
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
Vocabulary classified under Mathematics
6. Noun
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"
Vocabulary classified under Mathematics
7. Noun
a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
Vocabulary classified under Biology
8. Noun
the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
9. Noun
the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
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