pop·u·la·tion /ˌpɑpjəˈleʃən/
  人口,人口數
  pop·u·la·tion /ˌpɑpjəˈleʃən/ 名詞
  人口,總體,種群(生物)
  population
  總體;密數
  population
  群體
  Pop·u·la·tion n.
  1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
  2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
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  population
       n 1: the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population
            seemed to be well fed and clothed"
       2: a group of organisms of the same species populating a given
          area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer
          population"
       3: (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which
          samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of
          the population" [syn: universe]
       4: the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the
          number of a particular race or class) in a given place
          (country or city etc.); "people come and go, but the
          population of this town has remained approximately
          constant for the past decade"; "the African-American
          population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"
       5: the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he
          deplored the population of colonies with convicted
          criminals"