population
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3.5
- noun
- /ˌpɑːpjəˈleɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
población
- The significant increase in the elderly population of the United States raises new social service and health issues.
- sample population
- population study
- general population
So maybe you could speak to this, the correlation across the population versus individuals.
- So maybe you could speak to this, the correlation across the population versus individuals.
- If you just take a very small sample in there, you don't get any reliable reflection of the true habits of the population.
- So we wanted to get an unbiased population, but we also wanted to know what's called, what is the parent population?
- OK, so these are interesting findings in organoids, but when you have those, what you do is you move on to a population study.
Examples
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You divide the population into groups.
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In the United States, five percent of the population have 20 percent of the income.
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Do you know what 1% of the population of this country is?
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We want to try and figure out the change in the population of the prey over time.
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It's the means by which population growth is transformed into new demand for housing.
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Thus, our final results were based on a population of 52.
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Table 1 shows a comparison of the sample subjects with the overall student population at AUM.
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Innovative TB control strategies tailored to the needs of this immigrant population should be developed.
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The entire population will be entered on a central register with separate classification for whites, natives, and coloreds.
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The significant increase in the elderly population of the United States raises new social service and health issues.
Synonyms
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5.1
All the people or things you look at when you study something
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5.7
People who live in a country or area
Compounds
- Formal
A United Nations group that gives advice about population size and growth worldwide
- Specialized
Controlling how many and which possible answers a computer program keeps during a search
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Population comes from the root popul- meaning 'people', so it carries the idea of the whole group. That's why in statistics a population is the complete set of people or items you study, the group you might take a sample from.