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Population
In biology, a population is all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is potentially possible between any pair within the area, and where the probability of interbreeding is greater than the probability of cross-breeding with individuals from other areas.In sociology, population refers to a collection of humans. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of human populations.
Population in simpler terms is the number of people in a city or town, region, country or world; population is usually determined by a process called census (a process of collecting, analyzing, compiling and publishing data)
This article refers mainly to human population.
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Population (noun)
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
“The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!”
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Population (noun)
By extension, the people with a given characteristic.
“India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.”
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Population (noun)
A residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
“The town’s population is only 243.”
“population explosion;”
“population growth”
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Population (noun)
A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
“A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.”
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Population (noun)
A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
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Population (noun)
The act of initially empty items in a collection.
“John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.”
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Sample (noun)
A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen
“a blood sample”
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Sample (noun)
A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation or questioning, to provide statistical information about the population.
“”…it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.” Francis Galton et al. (1883). Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, [http://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchImages/galton/search/essays/pages/galton-1883-rba-anthro-report-final_14.htm p. 269].”
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Sample (noun)
A small quantity of food for tasting, typically given away for free.
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Sample (noun)
A small piece of some goods, for determining quality, colour, etc., typically given away for free.
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Sample (noun)
Gratuitous borrowing of easily recognised phases (or moments) from other music (or movies) in a recording.
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Sample (noun)
Example; pattern.
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Sample (verb)
To take or to test a sample or samples of
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Sample (verb)
To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
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Sample (verb)
To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music.
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Sample (verb)
To make or show something similar to a sample.
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Population (noun)
all the inhabitants of a particular place
“the island has a population of about 78,000”
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Population (noun)
a particular group or type of people living in a place
“a city with a large student population”
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Population (noun)
the extent to which an area is or has been populated
“areas of sparse population”
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Population (noun)
the action of populating a place.
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Population (noun)
a community of animals, plants, or humans among whose members interbreeding occurs
“fluctuations in populations of voles and lemmings”
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Population (noun)
a finite or infinite collection of items under consideration.
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Population (noun)
each of three groups (designated I, II, and III) into which stars can be approximately divided on the basis of their manner of formation
“the motions of Population II objects”
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Sample (noun)
a small part or quantity intended to show what the whole is like
“investigations involved analysing samples of handwriting”
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Sample (noun)
a small amount of a food or other commodity, especially one given to a prospective customer
“a free sample of chewing gum”
“samples of products for evaluation”
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Sample (noun)
a specimen taken for scientific testing or analysis
“a urine sample”
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Sample (noun)
a portion drawn from a population, the study of which is intended to lead to statistical estimates of the attributes of the whole population
“a simple random sample of forty-five students”
“they shared these characteristics with other women in the sample”
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Sample (noun)
a sound or piece of music created by sampling
“piano samples”
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Sample (verb)
take a sample or samples of (something) for analysis
“bone marrow cells were sampled”
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Sample (verb)
try the qualities of (food or drink) by tasting it
“it is a chance to sample probably the widest range of wines ever assembled”
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Sample (verb)
get a representative experience of
“sample some entertaining nights out in Liverpool”
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Sample (verb)
ascertain the momentary value of (an analogue signal) many times a second so as to convert the signal to digital form
“the input signal must be sampled at twice its highest frequency”
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Sample (verb)
record or extract (a small piece of music or sound) digitally for reuse as part of a composition or song
“riffs sampled from other musicians”