population

n 1: the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population

seemd 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" [syn: {universe}]

4: the number of inhabitants 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"

5: the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he

deplored the population of colonies with convicted

criminals" [syn: {populating}]