Population vs Numbers - What's the difference?
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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 Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fourth book in the Torah.
* 1599 — Shakespeare,
As nouns the difference between population and numbers
is that population is population while numbers is .As a verb numbers is
(number).population
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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.
numbers
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(Book of Numbers)Proper noun
(en proper noun)Hen Vi 2
- For in the book of Numbers is it writ, when the man dies, let the inheritance descend unto the daughter.