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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
population From the web:
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- what population of the us is white
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- what population is at greatest risk for hypertension
- what population is considered highly susceptible
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- what population density
microevolution
English
Etymology
micro- +? evolution, coined by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt in 1909.
Noun
microevolution (countable and uncountable, plural microevolutions)
- Small-scale changes in the history of life, such as changes in allele frequencies in a population (over a few generations); also known as change at or below the species level.
- Coordinate term: macroevolution
- Hypernym: evolution
Derived terms
- microevolutionist
Translations
Further reading
- microevolution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
microevolution From the web:
- what microevolution means
- microevolution what does it mean
- what is microevolution in biology
- what is microevolution does it explain speciation
- what is microevolution quizlet
- what is microevolution and macroevolution
- what causes microevolution
- what is microevolution brainly
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