Word Finder - population

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The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

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The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!

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(by extension) The people with a given characteristic.

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India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.

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A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

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The town’s population is only 243.

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A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

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A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.

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A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.

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The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

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John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.

The population of the nearest big city was growing.

Half the population of his planet had been decimated by famine and war.

By 2020, it is estimated that five billion people will be online, representing two-thirds the population of the planet.

The large majority of the population of the city is Roman Catholic.

The trouble is, my ranch has been a safe haven and even headquarters for the wolf population around here.

The rest of the population lived on the streets or underground.

Not till the 13th of February were the miserable remnants of the population permitted to rebuild their houses and cultivate their fields once more.

The population at that time was a tenth of what it is today.

The United Nations has estimated that earth's population will pass nine billion by 2050, and ten billion by 2100.

In terms of population, New York is the biggest city in the county.

The population in 1901 was 31,279.

Structural famine exists when enough food is technically on hand or able to be imported, but some portion of the population is economically separated from it.

The population was at that time a little over 300,000; public security and education were alike lacking, and there were considerable animosities between different parts of the island.

The population was not homogeneous, as a considerable part of the immigration came by way of Pennsylvania and included Germans, the Protestant Scotch-Irish and settlers from the states farther.

And as population rises, education rises, health rises, and wealth rises, more and more people will be working on these problems.

So you make sure that if your population of redheads had a million people with a certain distribution of age, the distribution in your non-redhead sample is exactly the same.

In states such as Wyoming and the Dakotas the population is largely rural, and the deaths by lightning rise in consequence.

A considerable portion of the Turkish population emigrated in 1881; a further exodus took place in 1898.

It has a population of about 5000, almost wholly occupied with the manufacture and sale of rose-water, which is largely exported to many parts of Persia as well as to Arabia, India and Java.

Two-thirds of the population are dependent entirely on cultivation for their support, and this is mainly rice on irrigated land.

By 1861 the population had grown to 17,688, chiefly owing to its position as an important railway junction.

The town of Cambay had a population in 1901 of 31,780.

The population slightly exceeds 2000.

You would know before you received a treatment how likely it was to work for you—not merely how likely it was to work for the larger population, but for you.

A similar conclusion may be drawn from the legend which peopled primitive Rhodes with a population of skilful workers in metal, the "Telchines."

In 1901 the population was 40,170.

It is a place of some strategic importance, and had in 1897 a population of 11,877.

The sudden invasion of Belgium by the Germans rendered a large part of the Belgian civilian population destitute, and on Oct.

The population may be set down roughly as 823,000,000, of which 330,000,000 inhabit Chinese territory, 302,000,000 British, and 25,000,000 Russian.

The bulk of the population was of Arab race, and though Aramaic was used as the written language, in common intercourse Arabic had by no means disappeared.

The fierce mining population of the town was mainly German, and fanatically Catholic, in contrast with Prague, which was Czech and utraquist.

The population in 1901 was 882,084, showing a decrease of 4% in the decade due to the effects of famine.

In 1901 the population was 5,069,020, showing a decrease of 6 70 in the decade.

The population of the Central Provinces and Berar as now defined according to the census of 1901 was 10,847,325, and is of very diverse ethical construction, having been recruited by immigration from the countries surrounding it on all sides.

This Semitic population in Anatolia is an important recent discovery.

Whether we should deduce from its common occurrence in Babylonia the existence of an Elamite population there in early times, later displaced by the Sumerians, we do not know.

The population in 1901 was 22,565.

By the government's calculation, about 40 percent of India's population, or half a billion people, are below that level.

The differences in socio-economic level of the city's population are juxtaposed in such a diverse community such as this.

The number of thunderstorm days is probably a less exact measure of the relative intensity of thunderstorms than statistics as to the number of persons killed annually by lightning per million of the population.

Thus, ceteris paribus, deaths from lightning are much more numerous in a country than in an industrial population.

In New York State, where the population is largely industrial, the annual deaths per million are only three, but of the agricultural population eleven.

The present population of the island is about 4000, of which the capital has about 2000.

Though the third town in the state in point of population, Alleppi is the first in commercial importance.

Its population was given in 1894 as 135,232, but its area has been largely reduced since then.

In 1901 the population was 1,113,298, showing an increase of 6% in the decade.

The Lingayats number 436,968, or 46% of the Hindu population; they worship the symbol of Siva, and males and females both carry this emblem about their person in a silver case.

In 1901, 49,102 families inhabited 48,415 houses, and the proportion of the urban population to the rural was 27.5 to 72.5.

In 1904 official estimates, based on immigration and emigration returns and upon registered births and deaths, both of which are admittedly defective, showed a population increased to 5,410,028, and a small diminution in the rate of annual increase from 1895 to 1904 as compared with 18.69-1895.

The immigrant population is concentrated in or near the large cities.