population

英 [pɒpjʊ'leɪʃ(ə)n] 美[,pɑpju'leʃən]

• n. 人口；[生物] 种群，[生物] 群体；全体居民

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"

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"