单词 | population |
释义 | Word Frequency population(ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən) noun 1. (sometimes functioning as plural) all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place 2. the number of such inhabitants 3. (sometimes functioning as plural) all the people of a particular race or class in a specific area the Chinese population of San Francisco 4. the act or process of providing a place with inhabitants; colonization 5. ecology a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a given area 6. astronomy either of two main groups of stars classified according to age and location. Population I consists of younger metal-rich hot white stars, many occurring in galactic clusters and forming the arms of spiral galaxies. Stars of population II are older, the brightest being red giants, and are found in the centre of spiral and elliptical galaxies in globular clusters 7. Also called: universe statistics the entire finite or infinite aggregate of individuals or items from which samples are drawn |
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