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Meaning of population

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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 inhabiting 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: {population}, {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"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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