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population |
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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