population
/ˌpɑ.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/ sustantivo A2En español: población
- The people living within a political or geographical boundary. · The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
- The people with a given characteristic. · India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
- A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world. · The town’s population is only 243.· population explosion; population growth
- The number of living cells in a pattern.
- A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area. · A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.
- A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
- The act of filling initially empty items in a collection. · John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.
- General population.
Plural populations
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If Bonaparte landed at Naples, the whole coalition would be on foot before he could even reach Piombino; if he land in Tuscany, he will be in an unfriendly territory; if he land in France, it must be with a handful of men, and the result of that is easily foretold, execrated as he is by the population.
A number of small shops have come into being to meet the wants of the increased population; so there seems some prospect that Birlstone may soon grow from an ancient village into a modern town.
The emperor, now king of the petty Island of Elba, after having held sovereign sway over one-half of the world, counting as his subjects a small population of five or six thousand souls,—after having been accustomed to hear the “Vive Napoléons” of a hundred and twenty millions of human beings, uttered in ten different languages,—was looked upon here as a ruined man, separated forever from any fresh connection with France or claim to her throne.
Climate change and growing populations are putting pressure on water supplies almost everywhere.
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