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POPULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of populating (causing to live in a place)
Example:
he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("population" is a kind of...):
colonisation; colonization; settlement (the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies)
Derivation:
populate (fill with inhabitants)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
Example:
it is an estimate of the mean of the population
Synonyms:
population; universe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("population" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "population"):
subpopulation (a population that is part of a larger population)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
Example:
they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("population" is a kind of...):
group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "population"):
overpopulation (too much population)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The people who inhabit a territory or state
Example:
the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("population" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "population"):
home front (the civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war)
Derivation:
populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)
Sense 5
Meaning:
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.)
Example:
the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("population" is a kind of...):
integer; whole number (any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero)
Context examples:
When the grey cub came back to life and again took interest in the far white wall, he found that the population of his world had been reduced.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Subgroups of populations based on age.
(Age Group, NCI Thesaurus)
A population of allogeneic cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTLs) specifically reactive to human adenovirus (Ad) with potential immunomodulating and anti-adenoviral activities.
(Allogeneic Adenovirus-specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)
All deaths reported in a given population.
(Mortality, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A microscopic finding that relates to the architectural patterns of a normal or abnormal cellular population in a tissue specimen.
(Morphologic Architectural Pattern, NCI Thesaurus)
We were but a small country, with a population which, when the war began, was not much more than half that of France.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A rare malignant embryonal neoplasm characterized by the presence of small cells which resemble the cells of classic medulloblastoma and a minor population of melanin-forming neuroepithelial cells.
(Medulloblastoma with Melanotic Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus)
An indication that a subject is part of a population group that has a greater chance of contracting a disease or disorder.
(Member Of High Risk Population, NCI Thesaurus)
A B-or T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma composed of a mixed-sized lymphocytic population occurring in adults.
(Adult Diffuse Mixed Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) harvested directly from infiltrate of a patient's melanoma and cultured with interleukin-2 to expand the TIL cell population.
(Melanoma Tumor-Reactive Autologous Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
