population
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
population/pɒpjuˈleɪʃn/
▶noun
- 1 all the inhabitants of a particular place.
■ a particular group within this.
■ the action of populating an area.
- 2 Biology a community of interbreeding organisms.
- 3 Statistics a finite or infinite collection of items under consideration.
'population' also found in these Oxford entries:
Azeri
- biosecurity
- birth rate
- Boer
- census
- Chinatown
- cliometrics
- cluster
- cull
- decile
- deme
- demographic
- depopulate
- dragonnade
- enumerator
- epizootic
- ethnic minority
- eugenics
- eutrophic
- gene pool
- Hutu
- -ile
- incidence
- Khalkha
- Kosovar
- labour force
- Malthusian
- militia
- modal
- monomorphic
- nuptiality
- overspill
- Palestinian
- percentile
- pop.
- populate
- populous
- quartile
- quintile
- race
- recruitment
- refugium
- Registrar General
- relict
- remote
- repopulate
- reversal
- rust belt
- sample
