ALL meanings of population
pop·u·la·tion
P p - noun population number 1
- noun population inhabitants 1
- noun population specific group 1
- abbreviation POPULATION populating 1
- noun population the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area. 1
- noun population the body of inhabitants of a place: The population of the city opposes the addition of fluorides to the drinking water. 1
- noun population the number or body of inhabitants in a place belonging to a specific social, cultural, socioeconomic, ethnic, or racial subgroup: the native population; the working-class population. 1
- noun population Statistics. any finite or infinite aggregation of individuals, not necessarily animate, subject to a statistical study. 1
- noun population Ecology. the assemblage of a specific type of organism living in a given area. all the individuals of one species in a given area. 1
- noun population the act or process of populating: Population of the interior was hampered by dense jungles. 1
- noun population the entire finite or infinite aggregate of individuals or items from which samples are drawn 0
- noun population all the people in a country, region, etc. 0
- noun population the number of these 0
- noun population a (specified) part of the people in a given area 0
- noun population a populating or being populated 0
- noun population a group of similar organisms living in the same region, esp. organisms of the same species 0
- noun population the total set of items, persons, etc. from which a sample is taken 0
- countable noun population The population of a country or area is all the people who live in it. 0
- countable noun population If you refer to a particular type of population in a country or area, you are referring to all the people or animals of that type there. 0
- noun population all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place 0
- noun population the number of such inhabitants 0
- noun population all the people of a particular race or class in a specific area 0
- noun population the act or process of providing a place with inhabitants; colonization 0
- noun population a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a given area 0
- noun population 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 0