Engelsk navneord: population | |||
1. | population (om gruppe) the people who inhabit a territory or state | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The population seemed to be well fed and clothed. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | people | ||
Mere specifikke termer | home front | ||
2. | population (om gruppe) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | They hired hunters to keep down the deer population. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | group, grouping | ||
Mere specifikke termer | overpopulation | ||
3. | population (om erkendelse) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | It is an estimate of the mean of the population. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | universe | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | ||
Mere specifikke termer | subpopulation | ||
Overordnet emneområde | statistics | ||
4. | population (om mængde el. mål) 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.) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | 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. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | integer, whole number | ||
5. | population (om handling) the act of populating (causing to live in a place) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | colonisation, colonization, settlement | ||