Contemporary Examples

Dual-eligibles are the sickest, poorest, and most vulnerable segment of the Medicare population.

The Monitor in November reported that more than 10 percent of the population uses Facebook in 51 countries.

But for half the populationAfghanistan's womenthat's a truth with modifications.

Should I have married someone Jewish, if only to keep our population up?

Oklahoma Total background checks: 344,781 population: 3,791,508 Background checks per 100,000 residents: 9,094 9.

Historical Examples

Some reports give the nominal Christian population as high as 80,000.

What, then, must be the population of the British empire if the increase in one city was at that rate?

He expressed his preference for parliamentary reform, based on population.

As our population has expanded, the Union has been cemented and strengthened.

It is not so in fact, but in Russia it is believed to be so by all classes of the population.

British Dictionary definitions for population Expand

(sometimes functioning as pl) all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place

the number of such inhabitants

(sometimes functioning as pl) all the people of a particular race or class in a specific area: the Chinese population of San Francisco

the act or process of providing a place with inhabitants; colonization

(ecology) a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a given area

(astronomy) 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

(statistics) Also called universe. the entire finite or infinite aggregate of individuals or items from which samples are drawn

Word Origin and History for population Expand

1610s, from Late Latin populationem (nominative populatio) "a people; a multitude," as if from Latin populus "a people" (see people (n.)). Population explosion is first attested 1953.

population in Medicine Expand

population population (pp'y-l'shn) n.

The total number of people inhabiting a specific area.

The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken.

All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat.

population in Science Expand

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