POPULATION
Scrabble letter values: P3O1P3U1L1A1T1I1O1N1 = 14
Definition
- noun the people who inhabit a territory or state.
- noun a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area.
- noun (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn. — synonyms: universe
- noun 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.).
- noun the act of populating (causing to live in a place).
Examples
- “the population seemed to be well fed and clothed”
- “they hired hunters to keep down the deer population”
- “it is an estimate of the mean of the population”