Library / English Dictionary

SUBPOPULATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A population that is part of a larger population

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("subpopulation" is a kind of...):

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

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "subpopulation"):

stratum (a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The Flow Cytometry Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with following support: analytical flow cytometry, sorting of cell subpopulations utilizing various criteria, such as intrinsic cell properties, e.g.

(Flow Cytometry Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

CD52 is a glycoprotein expressed on the surface of essentially all normal and malignant B and T cells, a majority of monocytes, macrophages and natural killer (NK) cells, a subpopulation of granulocytes, and tissues of the male reproductive system.

(Alemtuzumab, NCI Thesaurus)