population
IPA: pɑpjʌɫˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
- (by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
- A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
- (cellular automata) The number of living cells in a pattern.
- (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
- (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
- (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
- (prison) General population.
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Examples of "population" in Sentences
- The population of the town is 1 trillion.
- The population of the town increased rapidly.
- The town fell, and the population was enslaved.
- The population of the town declined significantly.
- By the next January, the population of the town was 839.
- The population of the town is largely of German descent.
- The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Erode Population.
- Is it the size of the population of speakers in the respective country
- The misery and distress of the population in the towns was indescribable.
- Under our unimaginable economic regime all increase in population is a menace.
- This accelerating rate of increase is what is meant by the term population explosion.
- There are 34 provinces, each ranging in population from a low of 300,000 to a high of 3 million.
- You say that "no independent Western European nation similar to Wales in population is as poor as Wales".
- But the world is sure to have a growing population for quite some time because of population momentum (Sen,
- Right, the city of Los Angeles, which just hit 4 million in population, is much denser today than most people realize.
- If you want to bring up welfare states … look up Alaska, which ranks 47th in population is number 1 in acquiring federal earmarks.
- ˜population genetics™, ˜fitness™ refers either to the abilities of the different genotypes in a population to leave offspring, or to the measures of those abilities, represented by the variable W.
- Puerto Vallarta is quite a unique town that has maintained its quaint atmosphere regardless of its huge rise in population from the early seventies to today, especially the down town area and south of town.
- Based on this year's census results — which showed a continuing shift in population from the Rust Belt to the South and West — a number of Midwestern states are slated to lose seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.