Words starting with populationexpl
Maybe these words will be useful:
- population — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- population control — a policy of attempting to limit the growth in numbers of a population, esp in poor or densely populated parts of the world, by programmes of contraception or sterilization
- population density — ratio: inhabitants to area
- population explosion — the rapid increase in numbers of a particular species, especially in the world's human population since the end of World War II, attributed to an accelerating birthrate, a decrease in infant mortality, and an increase in life expectancy.
- population genetics — the branch of genetics concerned with the hereditary makeup of populations.
- population inversion — a condition of matter in which more electrons are in a high energy state than in a lower energy state, as is required for the operation of a laser.
- population parameter — a quantity or statistical measure that, for a given population, is fixed and that is used as the value of a variable in some general distribution or frequency function to make it descriptive of that population: The mean and variance of a population are population parameters.
- population pressure — the force exerted by a growing population upon its environment, resulting in dispersal or reduction of the population.
- population pyramid — a graph showing the distribution of a population by sex, age, etc.