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 表示考察對象的全體。又稱母體。總體中每個成員稱為個體。例如考察某廠生產的燈泡的使用壽命,該廠生產的所有燈泡為總體,每個燈泡為一個個體。當總體中所含個體總數是有限時,稱為有限總體,否則,稱為無限總體。在實際中全面了解總體的情況,往往難以辦到,如不可能對所有燈泡進行試驗,記錄每一個燈泡的使用壽命。所以常通過觀測部分個體,以獲得總體的信息。 population的用法: 一、population常與定冠詞the連用