The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
Used in a Sentence
populations
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for populations.
Editorial note
Aptitude testing shows[1] that while females tend to cluster more towards the average, male populations produce more outliers.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of populations gathered in one view.
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
(by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for populations.
noun
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
noun
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
noun
(by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
noun
(statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
Example sentences
Aptitude testing shows[1] that while females tend to cluster more towards the average, male populations produce more outliers.
Not many people seem to have a problem with hunting deer for meat or to regulate their populations.
Is your contention that there's no difference in raising wages in small countries with largely centralized populations vs.
Not even Switzerland's neighbours (Italy, France, Germany) with people coming from the same populations can reproduce it.
This mixing will probably delay the creation of a new species by reducing the genetic differences between the populations.
We can setup manageable and productive fisheries that not only can sustain populations but also continue to reproduce and be healthy.
So, we're still left with a problem of populations that don't have an adequate and cheap water supply.
A very, very crude example of a somewhat similar process is that of segregation[1] with the addition of random populations during the run.
They weave through most cities/towns, provide insulation from populations on the ground and relatively easy recoverability (as opposed to being destroyed on impact).
Entire populations kept in line by the robots that hunt in the night.
Initial dose-tolerability and double-blind randomized, controlled studies focusing on target intractable epilepsy populations such as patients with Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes are being planned.
And, right now, you just don't have that from certain populations.
Quote examples
And what about that "younger, less socially mobile populations" bit they referenced (prior paragraph)?
So, over time, it's become hard to get those populations to do even those things that really are objectively "good" for their health.
The inferences they’re drawing assume that the populations of “millenial men without kids” and “millenial men with kids” are part of an otherwise uniform group of millenial men, with attitudes changing as men go from one population into the other showing that pre-kid egalitarian attitudes couldn’t stand up to reality.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use populations in a sentence?
Aptitude testing shows[1] that while females tend to cluster more towards the average, male populations produce more outliers.
What does populations mean?
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
What part of speech is populations?
populations is commonly used as noun.