different between population vs malapportionment

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)

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.

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.
   • 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.

6. (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

Related terms

• popular
• populate
• populous

Translations

Danish

Noun

population

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. population

English

Etymology

mal- +? apportionment

Noun

malapportionment (countable and uncountable, plural malapportionments)

1. (politics) Any system where one group has significantly more influence than another, such as when voting districts are unevenly spread out across a population (compare gerrymandering).