Population

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Population \Pop`u*la"tion\, n. [L. populatio: cf. F.
     population.]
     1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of
        inhabitants.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country,
        or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  population
       n 1: the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population
            seemed to be well fed and clothed"
       2: a group of organisms of the same species populating a given
          area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer
          population"
       3: (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which
          samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of
          the population" [syn: {universe}]
       4: 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"
       5: the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he
          deplored the population of colonies with convicted
          criminals"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "population":
     Beehive, Cepheid variable, Everyman, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram,
     Hyades, John Doe, Messier catalog, NGC, Pleiades, Public,
     Seven Sisters, absolute magnitude, anchorage, binary star,
     black hole, body politic, citizenry, citizens, colonization,
     common man, commonwealth, community, community at large,
     double star, dwarf star, empeoplement, establishment, estate,
     everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, fixation, fixed star,
     folk, folks, foundation, general public, gentry, giant star,
     globular cluster, gravity star, inauguration, inhabitants,
     inhabiting, initiation, installation, installment, investiture,
     lodgment, magnitude, main sequence star, mass-luminosity law, men,
     mooring, nation, nationality, neutron star, nova, open cluster,
     people, people in general, peoplement, peopling, persons,
     plantation, polity, populace, populations, public, pulsar, quasar,
     quasi-stellar radio source, radio star, red giant star,
     relative magnitude, settlement, settling, sky atlas, society,
     spectrum-luminosity diagram, star, star catalog, star chart,
     star cloud, star cluster, state, stellar magnitude, supernova,
     variable star, white dwarf star, world, you and me