population

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus, equivalent to populate +‎ -ion. Doublet of poblacion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɒp.juːˈleɪ.ʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑ.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: po‧pu‧la‧tion

Noun

population (plural populations)

1. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
2. (by extension) The people with a given characteristic.

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

7. (prison) General population.

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Translations

Danish

Noun

population

1. (statistics) population

Declension

See also

• stikprøve (“sample”)

French

Etymology

Borrowing from Late Latin populātiōnem from Latin populus (“people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.py.la.sjɔ̃/

Noun

population f (plural populations)

1. population
2. the public

Derived terms

• densité de population

Related terms

Further reading

• “population”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Interlingua

Noun

population (plural populationes)

1. population

Swedish

Noun

population c

1. (biology) a population
2. (statistics) a population

Declension

Derived terms

• populationsgenetik (“population genetics”)

See also

• befolkning
• bestånd
• folkmängd

References

• population in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• population in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• population in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)