population
名词 n.
英 /ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃən/|/ˌpɒp.juːˈleɪ.ʃən/
美 /ˌpɑ.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
英文释义
名词 n.
-
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
— The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
-
The people with a given characteristic.
— India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
词汇关系
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.
0 次浏览
数据来源: Wiktionary