populations

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

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