Definition of "population" []

• All of the people inhabiting a specified area. (noun)
• The total number of such people. (noun)
• The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area. (noun)
• The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants. (noun)
• Ecology All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat. (noun)

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• "˜population genetics™, ˜fitness™ refers either to the abilities of the different genotypes in a population to leave offspring, or to the measures of those abilities, represented by the variable W."
• "But the world is sure to have a growing population for quite some time because of ‘population momentum (Sen,"
• "You say that "no independent Western European nation similar to Wales in population is as poor as Wales"."