census

Forms

1.An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
2.The people being treated in a healthcare facility, clinic or program.
3.Count, tally.
- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ..
4.A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

1.To conduct a census on.
- Each page of the schedule was crossruled with 8 lines, capable of censussing 8 individuals.
- Indeed, none of the recorded characteristics of buildings nor their location affected our counts of breeding Sparrows, which appeared to be distributed rather homogeneously across the urban areas we censused.
2.To collect a census.

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Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō.

See censor.