2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Population \Pop`u*la"tion\, n. [L. populatio: cf F.
population.]
1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of
inhabitants.
2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country,
or portion of a country; as a population of ten millions.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
population
n 1: the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population
seemd to be well fed and clothed"
2: a group of organisms of the same species populating a given
area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer
population"
3: (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which
samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of
the population" [syn: {universe}]
4: the number of inhabitants 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"
5: the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he
deplored the population of colonies with convicted
criminals" [syn: {populating}]
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