Populace vs. Population

Populace vs. Population — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Populace and Population

Populacenoun

The common people of a nation.

Populationnoun

The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!

Populacenoun

The inhabitants of a nation.

Populationnoun

By extension, the people with a given characteristic.

India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.

Populacenoun

people in general considered as a whole;

he is a hero in the eyes of the public

Populationnoun

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
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Populationnoun

(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.

Populationnoun

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

Populationnoun

(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.

Populationnoun

the people who inhabit a territory or state;

the population seemed to be well fed and clothed

Populationnoun

a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area;

they hired hunters to keep down the deer population

Populationnoun

(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn;

it is an estimate of the mean of the population
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Populationnoun

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

Populationnoun

the act of populating (causing to live in a place);

he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals