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  • 51population pyramid — A diagram that illustrates the distribution of a population by age. The youngest and most numerous age group forms a rectangle at the base of the pyramid; the oldest and least numerous is a small rectangle at its apex …

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  • 52population — pop•u•la•tion [[t]ˌpɒp yəˈleɪ ʃən[/t]] n. 1) the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area 2) the body of inhabitants of a place 3) the number or body of inhabitants of a particular race, class, or group in a… …

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  • 53population — /pɒpjəˈleɪʃən / (say popyuh layshuhn) noun 1. the total number of persons inhabiting a country, town, or any district or area. 2. the body of inhabitants of a place. 3. the number or body of inhabitants of a particular category, as those of a… …

  • 54population — a local group of individuals which form a potentially interbreeding community with other such populations. Usually populations have little demographic or genetic exchange with other such populations. Also defined as the total number of… …

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  • 55population — n. [L. populus, people] A group of individuals, especially with reference to numbers and statistics …

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  • 56population density — The number of a group of individuals as to unit area or volume …

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  • 57population —    Individuals of a species in a given locality which potentially form a single interbreeding group separated by physical barriers from other such populations ( e. g., populations of the same species in two quite separate caves) [25] …

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  • 58population — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. people, residents; nation. See inhabitant. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. inhabitants, dwellers, people, citizenry, natives, group, residents, culture, community, state, populace; see also society 2 . III… …

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  • 59population transfer —    forcible resettlement    Not the natural movements which take place on a surprising scale in a civilized country but the language used for the forcible uprooting of a racial group for political reasons, as practised by the Germans under Hitler …

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  • 60population — noun 1》 all the inhabitants of a particular place.     ↘a particular group within this.     ↘the action of populating an area. 2》 Biology a community of interbreeding organisms. 3》 Statistics a finite or infinite collection of items under… …

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