Noun

(en noun)

The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

By extension, the people with a given characteristic.

A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

(biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

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, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

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

* 1883 , (Francis Galton) et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee , Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.

it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.

(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

Noun

(en noun)

A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.

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, author=Donald Worster , title=A Drier and Hotter Future , volume=100, issue=1, page=70 , magazine= citation , passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems , and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}

The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment.

(business, marketing) A set of interconnected products and services.