Definisjon av population på Engelsk

WordNet

Noun
population - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
		universe
		aggregation, accumulation, assemblage, collection the act of accumulating
		statistics a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
population - the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
		people members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"
population - the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
		colonisation, colonization, settlement the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"
population - a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
		group, grouping any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
population - 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"

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

A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define the population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals from other areas. Normally breeding is substantially more common within the area than across the border.

population
The people living in a certain area as a whole.
population
A group of organisms of one species, occupying a defined area.\n(Source: LBC)
population
The abstract property of a human, of living in a specific area given by precise, and well defined, borders. (This may be part of, or include, citizenship, but not necessarily so, e.g. for people having several places of residence, for foreigners, or ones officially being accepted on long-term transient living terms)
population
The totality of persons or objects with which a research study is concerned.