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pop·u·la·tion

(pŏp′yə-lā′shən)

a. All of the people inhabiting a specified area.

b. The total number of such people.

2. The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.

3. The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants.

4. Ecology All the organisms of a given species interacting in a specified area.

5. Statistics The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken. Also called universe.

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population

(ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən)

1. (sometimes functioning as plural) all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place

2. the number of such inhabitants

3. (sometimes functioning as plural) all the people of a particular race or class in a specific area: the Chinese population of San Francisco.

4. the act or process of providing a place with inhabitants; colonization

5. (Environmental Science) ecology a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a given area

6. (Astronomy) astronomy either of two main groups of stars classified according to age and location. Population I consists of younger metal-rich hot white stars, many occurring in galactic clusters and forming the arms of spiral galaxies. Stars of population II are older, the brightest being red giants, and are found in the centre of spiral and elliptical galaxies in globular clusters

7. (Statistics) statistics Also called: universe the entire finite or infinite aggregate of individuals or items from which samples are drawn

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pop•u•la•tion

(ˌpɒp yəˈleɪ ʃən)

n.

1. the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.

2. the body of inhabitants of a place.

3. the number or body of inhabitants of a particular race, class, or group in a place: the working-class population.

4. any aggregation of things or individuals subject to statistical study.

a. the assemblage of organisms living in a given area.

b. all the individuals of one species in a given area.

6. the act or process of populating.

[1570–80; < Late Latin]

pop`u•la′tion•al, adj.

pop·u·la·tion

(pŏp′yə-lā′shən)

A group of individuals of the same species occupying a specific habitat, community, or other defined area: the population of turtles in a pond; the elk population in their winter range.

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Noun	1.	population - the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed" people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" home front - the civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war
	2.	population - a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population" group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit overpopulation - too much population
	3.	population - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population" universe statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters subpopulation - a population that is part of a larger population aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
	4.	population - 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" integer, whole number - any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero; "an integer is a number that is not a fraction"
	5.	population - the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals" colonisation, colonization, settlement - the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"

population

noun inhabitants, people, community, society, residents, natives, folk, occupants, populace, denizens, citizenry Bangladesh now has a population of about 100 million.

Quotations
"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio" [Thomas Malthus The Principle of Population]

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Translations

سُكّانعَدَدُ سُكَّان

populaceobyvatelstvo

befolkning

Bevölkerung Population

πληθυσμός

población

väestöväkilukuasukasluku

population

אוכלוסיהאוכלוסייה אוכלוסין

stanovništvo

lakosság

íbúar; íbúafjöldi

popolazione

人口

인구

bevolkinginwonertalpopulatie

prebivalstvo

befolkninginvånarantalpopulation

ประชากร

nüfus

dân số

人口居民

population

[ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən]

A. N

1. (= inhabitants) → población f
what is the population of Mexico? → ¿qué población tiene México?, ¿cuántos habitantes hay en México?
they go to the cinema more often than the general population → van al cine con más frecuencia que la población en general
75% of the male population → el 75% de la población masculina
the student population → la población estudiantil
see also prison B

2. (= settling) → población f

B. CPD population centre N → núcleo m or centro m de población
population control N → control m demográfico
population density N → densidad f de población
population explosion N → explosión f demográfica
population growth N → crecimiento m demográfico

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population

[ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃ^ən]

[country, city] → population f

(= total number in particular category) the male population → la population masculine
the mosquito population → le nombre de moustiques

[institution] → population f
a prison population of 44,000 → une population carcérale de 44 000 personnes

modif [growth, density] → de la populationpopulation explosion n → explosion f démographique

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population

n (of region, country) → Bevölkerung f; (of village, town) → Bewohner pl, → Einwohner pl; (= colonization) → Besiedlung f; (= number of inhabitants) → Bevölkerungszahl f; the population explosion → die Bevölkerungsexplosion; the growing black population of London → die wachsende Zahl von Schwarzen in London

population

population density

n → Bevölkerungsdichte f

population statistics

pl → Bevölkerungsstatistik f

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population

[ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃ/ən] n → popolazione f

populate

(ˈpopjuleit) verb

(usually in passive) to fill with people. That part of the world used to be populated by wandering tribes.

ˌpopuˈlation noun

the people living in a particular country, area etc. the population of London is 8 million; a rapid increase in population.

ˈpopulous adjective

full of people. a populous area.

population is singular: The population of the city increases in the summer .

population

→ عَدَدُ سُكَّان populace befolkning Bevölkerung πληθυσμός población väestö population stanovništvo popolazione 人口 인구 bevolking befolkning populacja população население befolkning ประชากร nüfus dân số 人口

pop·u·la·tion

n. población, habitantes de un área.

population

n población f

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400,000,000 souls--one quarter of the then total population of the earth.

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Passing over the difference between the smallest and largest States, as Delaware, whose most numerous branch consists of twenty-one representatives, and Massachusetts, where it amounts to between three and four hundred, a very considerable difference is observable among States nearly equal in population. The number of representatives in Pennsylvania is not more than one fifth of that in the State last mentioned.

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These tables were based upon weekly reports showing the average of deaths in each 1,000 population for a year.

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The resources of the domineering chiefs are wrung from the starving serfs, and every additional bauble with which they bedeck themselves is purchased by the sufferings of their bondsmen; so that the measure of gew-gaw refinement attained by the chiefs is only an index to the actual state in which the greater portion of the population lie grovelling.

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"How comes it, sir, that the population of the valley has been trebled in ten years?

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It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.

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Well, as I was saying, we got our mules and horses, after an hour and a half of bargaining with the population of Annunciation, and started sleepily up the mountain, with a vagrant at each mule's tail who pretended to be driving the brute along, but was really holding on and getting himself dragged up instead.

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It is obvious that there would have been even less reason to expect a disturbance among the people if after the battle of Borodino, when the surrender of Moscow became certain or at least probable, Rostopchin instead of exciting the people by distributing arms and broadsheets had taken steps to remove all the holy relics, the gunpowder, munitions, and money, and had told the population plainly that the town would be abandoned.

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At certain hours, successively calculated, marked by electric clocks which beat the seconds at the same time, the population were invited to take their places at the banquet tables.

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Irish, Germans, French, Scotch, all the heterogeneous units which make up the population of Maryland shouted in their respective vernaculars; and the "vivas," "hurrahs," and "bravos" were intermingled in inexpressible enthusiasm.

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If we compare the wealth of the United Netherlands with that of Russia or Germany, or even of France, and if we at the same time compare the total value of the lands and the aggregate population of that contracted district with the total value of the lands and the aggregate population of the immense regions of either of the three last-mentioned countries, we shall at once discover that there is no comparison between the proportion of either of these two objects and that of the relative wealth of those nations.

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Louis.- Its Situation.- Motley Population.- French Creole Traders and Their Dependants.- Missouri Fur Company- Mr.