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Populace vs. Population — What's the Difference?

Populace vs. Population — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Populace and Population

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Populace

The people living in a particular country or area
The party misjudged the mood of the populace

Population

In biology, a population is a number of all the organisms of the same group or species who live in a particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals from other areas.In sociology, population refers to a collection of humans.

Populace

The general public; the masses.

Population

All the inhabitants of a particular place
The island has a population of about 78,000

Populace

A population.
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Population

A community of animals, plants, or humans among whose members interbreeding occurs
Fluctuations in populations of voles and lemmings

Populace

The common people of a nation.
The populace despised their ignorant leader.

Population

A finite or infinite collection of items under consideration.

Populace

The inhabitants of a nation.

Population

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

Populace

The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, - comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.
To . . . calm the peers and please the populace.
They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces.

Population

All of the people inhabiting a specified area.

Populace

People in general considered as a whole;
He is a hero in the eyes of the public

Population

The total number of such people.

Population

The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.

Population

The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants.

Population

(Ecology) All the organisms of a given species interacting in a specified area.

Population

(Statistics) The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken. Also called universe.

Population

The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!

Population

(by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.

Population

A count of the number of 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

Population

(biology) 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.

Population

(statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.

Population

(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.

Population

The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

Population

The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.

Population

The people who inhabit a territory or state;
The population seemed to be well fed and clothed

Population

A group of organisms of the same species populating a given area;
They hired hunters to keep down the deer population

Population

(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn;
It is an estimate of the mean of the population

Population

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
The African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing

Population

The act of populating (causing to live in a place);
He deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals

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