population

名词 n.
/ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/|/ˌpɒp.juːˈleɪ.ʃən/    /ˌpɑ.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. broadly
    — India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
  3. 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.
  4. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.; 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.

词形变化

populations plural pop'n alternative,abbreviation

词源

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus, equivalent to populate + -ion. Doublet of poblacion.
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