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pop·u·la·tion

(pŏp′yə-lā′shən)

a. All of the people inhabiting a specified area.

b. The total number of such people.

2. The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.

3. The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants.

4. Ecology All the organisms of a given species interacting in a specified area.

5. Statistics The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken. Also called universe.

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population

(ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən)

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

2. the number of such inhabitants

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

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

5. (Environmental Science) ecology a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a given area

6. (Astronomy) 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

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

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pop•u•la•tion

(ˌpɒp yəˈleɪ ʃən)

n.

1. the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.

2. the body of inhabitants of a place.

3. the number or body of inhabitants of a particular race, class, or group in a place: the working-class population.

4. any aggregation of things or individuals subject to statistical study.

a. the assemblage of organisms living in a given area.

b. all the individuals of one species in a given area.

6. the act or process of populating.

[1570–80; < Late Latin]

pop`u•la′tion•al, adj.

pop·u·la·tion

(pŏp′yə-lā′shən)

A group of individuals of the same species occupying a specific habitat, community, or other defined area: the population of turtles in a pond; the elk population in their winter range.

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Noun	1.	population - the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed" people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" home front - the civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war
	2.	population - a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population" group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit overpopulation - too much population
	3.	population - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population" universe statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters subpopulation - a population that is part of a larger population aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
	4.	population - the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.); "people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"; "the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing" integer, whole number - any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero; "an integer is a number that is not a fraction"
	5.	population - the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals" colonisation, colonization, settlement - the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"

population

noun inhabitants, people, community, society, residents, natives, folk, occupants, populace, denizens, citizenry Bangladesh now has a population of about 100 million.

Quotations
"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio" [Thomas Malthus The Principle of Population]

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Translations

سُكّانعَدَدُ سُكَّان

populaceobyvatelstvo

befolkning

Bevölkerung Population

πληθυσμός

población

väestöväkilukuasukasluku

population

אוכלוסיהאוכלוסייה אוכלוסין

stanovništvo

lakosság

íbúar; íbúafjöldi

popolazione

人口

인구

bevolkinginwonertalpopulatie

prebivalstvo

befolkninginvånarantalpopulation

ประชากร

nüfus

dân số

人口居民

population

[ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən]

A. N

1. (= inhabitants) → población f
what is the population of Mexico? → ¿qué población tiene México?, ¿cuántos habitantes hay en México?
they go to the cinema more often than the general population → van al cine con más frecuencia que la población en general
75% of the male population → el 75% de la población masculina
the student population → la población estudiantil
see also prison B

2. (= settling) → población f

B. CPD population centre N → núcleo m or centro m de población
population control N → control m demográfico
population density N → densidad f de población
population explosion N → explosión f demográfica
population growth N → crecimiento m demográfico

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population

[ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃ^ən]

[country, city] → population f

(= total number in particular category) the male population → la population masculine
the mosquito population → le nombre de moustiques

[institution] → population f
a prison population of 44,000 → une population carcérale de 44 000 personnes

modif [growth, density] → de la populationpopulation explosion n → explosion f démographique

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population

n (of region, country) → Bevölkerung f; (of village, town) → Bewohner pl, → Einwohner pl; (= colonization) → Besiedlung f; (= number of inhabitants) → Bevölkerungszahl f; the population explosion → die Bevölkerungsexplosion; the growing black population of London → die wachsende Zahl von Schwarzen in London

population

population density

n → Bevölkerungsdichte f

population statistics

pl → Bevölkerungsstatistik f

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population

[ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃ/ən] n → popolazione f

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populate

(ˈpopjuleit) verb

(usually in passive) to fill with people. That part of the world used to be populated by wandering tribes.

ˌpopuˈlation noun

the people living in a particular country, area etc. the population of London is 8 million; a rapid increase in population.

ˈpopulous adjective

full of people. a populous area.

population is singular: The population of the city increases in the summer .

population

→ عَدَدُ سُكَّان populace befolkning Bevölkerung πληθυσμός población väestö population stanovništvo popolazione 人口 인구 bevolking befolkning populacja população население befolkning ประชากร nüfus dân số 人口

pop·u·la·tion

n. población, habitantes de un área.

population

n población f

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In this study, to reduce the computational effort of an LS method without any extra parameters, a new HGA, called "a best-offspring HGA," denoted by BOHGA, is developed with a new individual learning procedure; that is, BOHGA performs an LS only when the best offspring (solution) in the offspring population is also the best in the current parent population. Additionally, a new LS method, a three-directional local search (TD), is introduced which is derivative-free and self-adaptive.

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And that's not the biggest injustice being meted out to the nation's parent population. I swear schools and nurseries are in cahoots and on a retainer with major supermarket for angel costumes, snowman costumes, snowflake costumes, star costumes and all manner of festive paraphernalia forced upon us and destined to be worn once - unless a younger sibling comes along by which time you'll be so scarred by the trauma of coaxing your son or daughter through their Christmas play you won't want a See you in the front row.

Where's Mary and Joseph when you need them? Paternity TEST By Dave Owens The trials and tribulations of an exhausted father

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