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Population

noun

The people who inhabit a territory or state.

A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area.

(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn. Synonym: universe.

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.). "The African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"

The act of populating (causing to live in a place).

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"Population" Quotes from Famous Books

... the bothy system in its first beginnings. It has since so greatly increased, that there are now single counties in Scotland in which there are from five to eight hundred farm-servants exposed to its deteriorating influences; and the rustic population bids fair in those districts fully to rival that of our large towns in profligacy, and greatly to outrival them in coarseness. Were I a statesman, I would, I think, be bold enough to try the efficacy of a tax ...

— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller

... owes its value to the needs of an ever-increasing population, belongs to a minority who prevent the people from cultivating it—or do not allow them to cultivate ...

— The Conquest of Bread • Peter Kropotkin

... of help. Usually the problems were easy to handle. On Singall III, a tiny planet of a cooling giant star, help was needed to deal with a new outbreak of a smallpox-like plague that had once decimated the population; the disease had finally been controlled after a Hospital Earth research team had identified the organism that caused it, determined its molecular structure, and synthesized an antibiotic that could destroy it without damaging the body of the host. ...

— Star Surgeon • Alan Nourse

... subconscious force of this abstract influence went far toward moulding the delicate shoots of his rapidly developing mentality into a brilliant knowledge of weights and measures, decimals, and the native population ...

— Terribly Intimate Portraits • Noel Coward

... Indians over, and with the transfer of Carolina from the hands of the neglectful Lords Proprietors into the possession of King George II, brighter and more prosperous days began to dawn for North Carolina. The population rapidly increased; and, whereas, in 1717 there were only 2,000 persons in the colony, by 1735 this number had increased to 4,000. Lively wranglings there were often between the Royal Governors and ...

— In Ancient Albemarle • Catherine Albertson

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