Population vs Amount - What's the difference?
population | amount |
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= (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,
(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
A quantity or volume.
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, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
* 2001 , Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education , page 195:
To total or evaluate.
To be the same as or equivalent to.
(obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between population and amount
is that population is population while amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard english).As a verb amount is
to total or evaluate.population
English
Noun
(en noun)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
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.
amount
English
(Quantity)Noun
(en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
- The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.
Derived terms
* principal amount * notional amountVerb
(en verb)- It amounts to three dollars and change.
- He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
- His response amounted to gross insubordination
- So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.