population

noun8

1. •
   The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

   • The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
2. •
   The people with a given characteristic.

   • India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
3. •
   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.
4. •
   the figure that tells how many people make their homes inside the borders of a place

   • The town’s population is only 243.
5. •
   A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.

   • […]it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained. — 1883
6. •
   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.
7. •
   General population.

   • I would like to say something about the place I am doing time at. When I was placed in population, I met another woman and we immediately became good friends. — 1985
8. •
   The number of living cells in a pattern.

   • This is one of several known "sawtooth" patterns, in which the population is unbounded but does not tend to infinity. — 1996