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population

noun

1. people inhabiting a territory, as in American population

2. (Science: genetics, ecology) a group of organisms of one species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time (e.g. deer population)

3. (Science: statistics) a set of individuals, objects, or data from where a statistical sample can be drawn

Word origin: from Latin populatio, from populus = people