Population - Definition

n 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 inhabiting 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" [syn: population, universe]
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"