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      population
      noun
      The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
      A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
      (by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
      (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
      (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
      (cellular automata) The number of living cells in a pattern.
      (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
      (prison) General population.
      Roots
      populuspopul- · Latin · people
      Synonyms for population
      inhabitantsnpopulacenpeoplingncitizenryncitizensn
      Words related to population
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