Associations to the word «Population»

POPULATION, noun. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

POPULATION, noun. By extension, the people with a given characteristic.

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

POPULATION, noun. (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

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

POPULATION, noun. (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

POPULATION DENSITY, noun. The average number of people who live on each square kilometer (or square mile) of land.

POPULATION GENETICS, noun. The study of the allele frequency distribution and change under the influence of the four evolutionary processes: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow.

POPULATION INVERSION, noun. (physics) The creation of a system in which more atoms or molecules are in an excited state than in a ground state

POPULATION MEAN, noun. (statistics) The mean (usually arithmetic, but possibly geometric) of all members of a population or all possible values from which a sample can be taken, as opposed to a sample mean.

POPULATION, noun. The people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed".

POPULATION, noun. A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population".

POPULATION, noun. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population".

POPULATION, noun. The number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.); "people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"; "the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing".

POPULATION, noun. The act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals".