American English pronunciation
How to pronounce populations
IPA transcription: [,pɑpjə'leɪʃənz]
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Noun
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the people who inhabit a territory or state
“the population seemed to be well fed and clothed”
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a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
“they hired hunters to keep down the deer population”
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(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
“it is an estimate of the mean of the population”
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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”
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the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
“he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals”
Usage examples
- Its aim is to conserve existing sturgeon populations worldwide and help in their restoration.
- European states often found themselves grappling with sociobiological propensities of populations.
- In application, populations are generally finite, making the discrete version more realistic.
- Serial founder effects have occurred when populations migrate over long distances.
- Some evidence suggests similar hepatotoxicity in other populations.
- The subpopulations on the northern end of the lake tend to be smaller.
- The stations sold were in Radio One's markets with the smallest African American populations.
- There are feral populations of this bird in several counties in southern California.
- The tribe helps manage salmon populations in the Stillaguamish River watershed.
- The Jewish Agency also helps vulnerable populations in Israel and around the world.