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(noun) the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals" |
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Synonyms: populating |
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Related Words: colonisation, colonization, settlement |
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(noun) (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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Synonyms: universe |
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Related Words: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, subpopulation |
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(noun) a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population" |
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Related Words: group, grouping, overpopulation, overspill |
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(noun) the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemd to be well fed and clothed" |
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Related Words: people |
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(noun) the number of inhabitants 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" |
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Related Words: integer, whole number |
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