population

Forms

1.The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
- The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
2.The people with a given characteristic.
- India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
3.A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
- The town’s population is only 243.
- End population was 101,764 cells, but with some significant spikes and drops along the way.
- This is one of several known "sawtooth" patterns, in which the population is unbounded but does not tend to infinity.
4.A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
- A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.
- Within and among populations of grindelias, some morphologic traits appear to vary more from plant to plant than in most genera of composites.
- The tunnel was retired from operational service on September 3 1966. Since then, like many other tunnels, it has been left unused and unloved, apart from by the resident bat population.

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Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus, equivalent to populate + -ion.

Doublet of poblacion.