population
英 [pɒpjʊ'leɪʃ(ə)n]
美[,pɑpju'leʃən]
- n. 人口；[生物] 种群，[生物] 群体；全体居民
英英释意
- 1. the people who inhabit a territory or state;
- "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
- 2. a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area;
- "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
- 3. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn;
- "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
- 4. the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.);
- "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"
- 5. the act of populating (causing to live in a place);
- "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"