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population

noun
/ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/UK/ˌpɑ.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/US

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.

  1. derived from populus
  2. borrowed from populatio

Definitions

  1. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

    • The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!

  2. The people with a given characteristic.

    • India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.

  3. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a…

    A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

    • The town’s population is only 243.
    • population explosion; population growth
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of…

      A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

      • 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.

    2. A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which…

      A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.

      • […]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.

    3. The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

      • John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.

    4. General population.

      • 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.

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Derived

populational, populationally, populationism, populationless, stellar population

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at population. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at population. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at population

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA