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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun All of the people inhabiting a specified area.
noun The total number of such people.
noun The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.
noun The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants.
noun Ecology All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat.
noun Statistics The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken.

from The Century Dictionary.

noun In biometry, a species, race, variety, or group of organisms that can be differentiated from other groups.
noun The act or process of populating or peopling: as, the rapid population of the country still continues.
noun The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country, county, city, or other locality: as, the population has increased 20,000 in four years; also, a part of the inhabitants in any way distinguished from the rest: as, the German population of New York.
noun The state of a locality with regard to the number of its inhabitants; populousness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
noun The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun The people living within a political or geographical boundary
noun A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
noun biology A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area
noun statistics A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn
noun computing The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

noun the people who inhabit a territory or state
noun 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.)
noun (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
noun the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
noun a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Late Latin populatio ("a people, multitude"), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus.

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Examples

˜population genetics™, ˜fitness™ refers either to the abilities of the different genotypes in a population to leave offspring, or to the measures of those abilities, represented by the variable W.

Darwinism Lennox, James 2004
But the world is sure to have a growing population for quite some time because of population momentum (Sen,

Chapter 8 2000
Based on this year's census results — which showed a continuing shift in population from the Rust Belt to the South and West — a number of Midwestern states are slated to lose seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In Midwest, Republicans Capitalize on Economic Woes Amy Merrick 2010
If you want to bring up welfare states … look up Alaska, which ranks 47th in population is number 1 in acquiring federal earmarks.

Think Progress » Portugal’s parliament approves same-sex marriage. 2010
Under our unimaginable economic regime all increase in population is a menace.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010
You say that "no independent Western European nation similar to Wales in population is as poor as Wales".

The £6bn lie 2009
There are 34 provinces, each ranging in population from a low of 300,000 to a high of 3 million.

When it is beyond our ability 2008
Right, the city of Los Angeles, which just hit 4 million in population, is much denser today than most people realize.

Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit 2007
This accelerating rate of increase is what is meant by the term population explosion.

Human population explosion 2008
Puerto Vallarta is quite a unique town that has maintained its quaint atmosphere regardless of its huge rise in population from the early seventies to today, especially the down town area and south of town.

Which One is the Real Vallarta 2006

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oroboros commented on the word population

I've seen it written that:
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Now, whatcha thnik?

October 5, 2007
yarb commented on the word population

That's all very well about China's population,
but walking eight-abreast, how would they cope with copulation?

October 5, 2007
oroboros commented on the word population

Shouldn't be a problem if the lines were appropriately alternated for the purpose of procreation doggy-style, yes? It would be a greater problem, I would think, when the waddling gave way to birthing, however!

October 5, 2007
reesetee commented on the word population

Eeew.

October 5, 2007
Prolagus commented on the word population

In statistics, the group of measurements (not organisms) about which one wishes to draw conclusions.
In the words of statistician Jerrold H. Zar: If a study is concerned with the blood-glucose concentration in three-year-old children, then the blood-glucose levels in all children of that age are the population of interest.

October 15, 2010