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"it is an estimate of the mean of the population"noun(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
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"they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"nouna group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
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"he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"nounthe act of populating (causing to live in a place)type of:
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"people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade" "the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"nounthe number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.)type of:
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"the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"nounthe people who inhabit a territory or statetype of:
Definition that contains population
- sample items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
- asia the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
- statistics a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
- epidemic (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously
- morocco a kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa with a largely Muslim population; achieved independence from France in 1956
- algeria a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s
- fertility the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
- mortality the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
- desolate reduce in population
- tucson a city in southeastern Arizona ringed by mountain ranges; long known as a winter and health resort but the population shift from industrial states to the Sunbelt resulted in rapid growth late in the 20th century