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population Definition

popu·la·tion (päp′yə lās̸hən)

noun

    1. all the people in a country, region, etc.
    2. the number of these
    3. a (specified) part of the people in a given area the Japanese population of Hawaii
  1. a populating or being populated
  2. Biol. a group of similar organisms living in the same region, esp. organisms of the same species
  3. Statistics the total set of items, persons, etc. from which a sample is taken

Etymology: LL populatio

population Synonyms

population

n.

inhabitants, dwellers, people, citizenry, natives, group, residents, culture, community, state, populace; see also society 2.

population Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • serve: Background The Bertram Diabetes Center serves a population of about 510,000 in East Norfolk, with a diabetes prevalence of 2.5 per cent.
  • grow: Taylor was helped by Manchester's fast growing population.

Adjective modifier

  • civilian: For detection of these agents for the civilian population, of course, we have absolutely nothing.
  • indigenous: More than 40 % of these deaths took place in the poorest regions of Peru where the indigenous populations are concentrated.
  • total: Table 43 Showing by provinces the total population of Ireland at each census period, 1821 1911.
  • general: They are much less likely to have access to a car than the general population.
  • diverse: Food London offers a huge variety of cuisines as a result of its ethnically diverse population.

Modifies a noun

  • density: The population density was assumed to be unchanged up to the year 2020.
  • dynamics: Ecology explores ecology at all levels from individual behavior and life history strategies to population dynamics and community structure.
  • projection: Population projections show a substantial loss in the city up to the year 2006.
  • growth: To many environmentalists, it's a puzzle how anyone could doubt the urgency of checking human population growth.
  • estimate: IS Claim rates are calculated using the people aged 16-59 from the 2003 Mid-Year population estimates.
  • genetics: Research Current research projects include: Population genetics and host race formation in aphids of the Myzus persicae group.

Noun used with modifier

  • prison: Florida has the highest prison population per capita in the nation.
  • fox: Without controlled culling, the majority of the fox population would be killed, probably less humanely by poisoning, snaring or shooting.
  • adult: Participants Random sample of the adult population of Hamilton, Ontario.
  • squirrel: Target: Identify all woodlands containing both red and gray squirrel populations and contact and advise owners on best management practice.
  • breeding: Their north Atlantic breeding populations are estimated to have declined by about 90 per cent in the last 20 years.
population Quotes

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

—Mill,John Stuart

   In any case you Papists have no right to complain! If you won't have contraception how can you control the

—Cruise

It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants† It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.

—Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl

Hardlyany of the women, who are a full half of the population, work; or if they do, then as a rule their husbands lie snoring in bed.

—More, SirThomas

All the immediate checks to populationöseem to be resolvable into moral restraint, vice and misery.

—Malthus,Thomas Robert

Consider Ireland. Thus you have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Churchöand in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.

—Goldsmith, Oliver

Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow.

—Brunner,John Kilian Houston

Population, when unchecked, increases in geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in arithmetical ratio.

—Malthus,Thomas Robert

The military system is, to a substantial extent, a method whereby the population provides a subsidy to the high technology industry.

—Chomsky, (Avram) Noam

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his Government a Fair Deal.

—Truman, Harry S

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