census

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human),…

   An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.

2. 2

   Count, tally.

   • In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...
3. 3

   A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.

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   1. 4

      A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash…

      A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

   2. 5

      To conduct a census on.

      • Each page of the schedule was crossruled with 8 lines, capable of censussing 8 individuals.
      • Indeed, none of the recorded characteristics of buildings nor their location affected our counts of breeding Sparrows, which appeared to be distributed rather homogeneously across the urban areas we censused.
   3. 6

      To collect a census.

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