populations

population

• n.
  • the people who inhabit a territory or state

    "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"

  • a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area

    "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"

  • (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

    "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"

    同义词：universe

  • 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"

  • the act of populating (causing to live in a place)

    "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"