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populate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin popul?tus, past participle of populor (“populate”), from Latin populus (“people”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?p.j??le?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?p.j??le?t/
Verb
populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated)
- (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
- (transitive) To live in; to inhabit.
- (intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.
- (computing, transitive, intransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
- John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.
- Clicking the refresh button will populate the grid.
- (electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.
Antonyms
- depopulate
Translations
Adjective
populate (comparative more populate, superlative most populate)
- (obsolete) populous
Latin
Participle
popul?te
- vocative masculine singular of popul?tus
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population
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus. Doublet of poblacion.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?pj??le???n/
- IPA(key): /p?pju??le???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
population (plural populations)
- The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
- (by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
- A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
- (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
- (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
- 1883, Francis Galton et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.
- […] it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.
- 1883, Francis Galton et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.
- (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
Related terms
- popular
- populate
- populous
Translations
Danish
Noun
population
- (statistics) population
Declension
See also
- stikprøve (“sample”)
French
Etymology
Borrowing from Late Latin popul?ti?, popul?ti?nem from Latin populus (“people”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?.py.la.sj??/
Noun
population f (plural populations)
- A population
Related terms
- populaire
- populeux
- peuple
Further reading
- “population” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Noun
population (plural populationes)
- population
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- what population density
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