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
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
5.the act of populating (causing to live in a place);
he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals
population 表示考察对象的全体。又称母体。总体中每个成员称为个体。例如考察某厂生产的灯泡的使用寿命,该厂生产的所有灯泡为总体,每个灯泡为一个个体。当总体中所含个体总数是有限时,称为有限总体,否则,称为无限总体。在实际中全面了解总体的情况,往往难以办到,如不可能对所有灯泡进行试验,记录每一个灯泡的使用寿命。所以常通过观测部分个体,以获得总体的信息。 population的用法: 一、population常与定冠词the连用