populating

verb

(transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.

(transitive) To live in; to inhabit.

(intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.

(computing, ambitransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.

(electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.

adjective

(obsolete) populous

Roots

populuspopul- · Latin · people

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