Phrase Hound found 32 phrases and 27 compound words that contain population. The most common are listed below. Open population in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 32
- population densityAverage population per unit area; especially, the average number of people who live per square kilometer (or square mile) of land.
- general populationThe general public.
- Population Growth
- Population IIA population or group of stars formed early in the history of the Universe, characterized by having a low metallicity.
- Population IIIA hypothetical population or group of stars which may have existed in the early history of the Universe, characterized by being extremely massive and hot and having an extremely low metallicity.
- Population size
- Civilian population
- population dynamicsA branch of mathematics used to model and study the size and age composition of populations as dynamical systems.
- population meanThe mean (usually arithmetic, but possibly geometric) of all members of a population or all possible values from which a sample can be taken, as opposed to a sample mean.
- Human population
- World Population
- Rural population
- population pyramidA graphical illustration of the distribution of a population (typically that of a country or region of the world) by age groups and sex; it typically forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing.
- Population estimates
- Aging population
- Prison population
- Urban Population
- ghost populationA population that is inferred to have existed based on data that has been reconstructed rather than on direct sampling.
- population biologyThe study of populations of organisms, especially the growth and regulation of population sizes and genetics, and the effects of interactions between species.
- population inversionThe creation of a system in which more atoms or molecules are in an excited state than in a ground state.
- population bottleneckA sudden, and normally temporary decrease in a population typically due to a stressful situation.
- population meansplural of population mean: The mean (usually arithmetic, but possibly geometric) of all members of a population or all possible values from which a sample can be taken, as opposed to a sample mean.
- population geneticsThe study of the allele frequency distribution and change under the influence of the four evolutionary processes: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow.
- population densitiesplural of population density: Average population per unit area; especially, the average number of people who live per square kilometer (or square mile) of land.
- population biologistOne who studies population biology.
Compound words 27
- overpopulationAn excessive number of occupants (people, animals, plants, etc.) in a particular area; specifically, when the number of occupants exceeds the ability of that area to provide for them.
- metapopulationA group of interacting populations of the same species.
- transpopulationThe population of transgender people, particularly in a specific region.
- populationalOf or pertaining to population
- infrapopulationA subset of a population
- superpopulationThe larger population from which a subpopulation is drawn.
- underpopulationInsufficient population.
- antipopulationistOpposing overpopulation.
- autopopulationautomatic population (of a database with data, a form with text, etc.)
- coenopopulationThe population within a coenose.