population
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
statistics
Etymology: 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.
Base: populate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: populations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pop'n
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
pos: noun
examples: The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
“Panicology” considers the evidence on both sides of a large number of worries that have beset the industrialized world in modern times, including the “population crisis” (now one of underpopulation that threatens the wealth and health of aging populations in countries like Italy and Russia)[…]
gloss: The people with a given characteristic.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
gloss: A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
pos: noun
examples: The town’s population is only 243.
population explosion; population growth
gloss: A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
pos: noun
examples: This is one of several known "sawtooth" patterns, in which the population is unbounded but does not tend to infinity.
Since unoccupied cells never send a message they never access their neighbors and so if the population of the arena is, say, 20% of the total area then 80% of time no neighbor cells need to be accessed at all leading 1/9th as many array accesses and computation speeds up to 9 times faster per generation.
End population was 101,764 cells, but with some significant spikes and drops along the way.
gloss: A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
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.
gloss: A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
pos: noun
examples: […]it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.
gloss: The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
pos: noun
examples: John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.
gloss: General population.
pos: noun
examples: I would like to say something about the place I am doing time at. When I was placed in population, I met another woman and we immediately became good friends.
Related words: popular
populate
populous
Derived words: populational
populationally
populationism
populationless
stellar population
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: سُكَّانِيَّة
roman: sukkāniyya
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܡܸܢܝܵܢܹ̈ܐ ܕܥܵܡܘܿܪܹ̈ܐ
roman: minyānē dˁāmōrē
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܥܵܡܘܿܪܹ̈ܐ
roman: ˁāmōrē
lang: Armenian
word: բնակչություն
roman: bnakčʻutʻyun
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 人口
roman: rénkǒu
lang: Dutch
word: bevolking
lang: Dutch
word: inwonertal
lang: Estonian
word: rahvaarv
lang: Faroese
word: fólkatal
lang: Finnish
word: asukasluku
lang: Finnish
word: väkiluku
lang: German
word: Bevölkerungszahl
lang: German
word: Einwohnerzahl
lang: Hebrew
word: אוכלוסייה \ אֻכְלוּסִיָּה
roman: ukhlusiyá
lang: Hebrew
word: אוכלוסין \ אֻכְלוּסִין
roman: ukhlusín
lang: Hindi
word: जनसंख्या
roman: jansaṅkhyā
lang: Hindi
word: मर्दुमशुमारी
roman: mardumśumārī
lang: Hindi
word: जनगणना
roman: jangaṇnā
lang: Hungarian
word: népesség
lang: Hungarian
word: lélekszám
lang: Japanese
word: 人口
roman: jinkō
lang: Kazakh
word: халық саны
roman: xalyq sany
lang: Korean
word: 인구
roman: in'gu
lang: Malay
word: penduduk
lang: Malay
word: populasi
lang: Malayalam
word: ജനസംഖ്യ
roman: janasaṅkhya
lang: Marathi
word: लोकसंख्या
roman: loksaṅkhyā
lang: Northern Altai
word: калык-ньонныг тоозы
roman: kalïk-nʹonnïg toozï
lang: Northern Altai
word: эл кӧби
roman: el köbi
lang: Northern Altai
word: улустынъ кӧби
roman: ulustïnʺ köbi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: folketall
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: innbyggertall
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: befolkningstall
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: folketal
lang: Portuguese
word: população
lang: Russian
word: населе́ние
roman: naselénije
lang: Sicilian
word: pupulazziuni
lang: Spanish
word: población
lang: Swedish
word: folkmängd
lang: Swedish
word: befolkning
lang: Tamil
word: மக்கள்தொகை
roman: makkaḷtokai
lang: Tibetan
word: མི་འབོར
roman: mi 'bor
lang: Turkish
word: nüfus
lang: Vietnamese
word: dân số
lang: Vietnamese
word: số dân