grouping vs population

population vs grouping

grouping and population both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grouping	Yes	No	No	No
population	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, population is a hyponym of grouping; that is, population is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than grouping:

grouping: any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
population: a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area

Other hyponyms of grouping include human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world, arrangement, straggle, kingdom, biological group, biotic community, community, people, social group, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, edition, electron shell, ethnic group, ethnos, race, association, cloud, swarm, subgroup, sainthood, citizenry, people, hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed, varna, circuit, scheme, system, series, actinide, actinoid, actinon, lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare-earth element, rare earth, halogen, stellar association, mineral association.

grouping (noun)	population (noun)
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit	the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
the activity of putting things together in groups	(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
a system for classifying things into groups	the people who inhabit a territory or state
	a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
	the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.)

Difference between grouping and population

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