POPULATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does populated mean? 

• POPULATED (adjective)
  The adjective POPULATED has 1 sense:

1. furnished with inhabitants

  Familiarity information: POPULATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPULATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Furnished with inhabitants

Context example:

forests populated with all kinds of wild life

Similar:

inhabited (having inhabitants; lived in)

 Context examples 

A large and densely populated urban area; a city specified in an address.

(City, NCI Thesaurus)

This may be populated when a start date is not.

(Adverse Event End Relative To Reference Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

If an earthquake occurs in a populated area, it may cause property damage, injuries, and even deaths.

(Earthquakes, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

The older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city.

(Inner City, NCI Thesaurus)

This may be populated when a start date is not collected.

(Performed Medical History Result End Relative To Reference Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Extremely low-mass stars appear to have densely-populated planetary systems.

(Researchers find two new planets with masses similar to Earth’s near a small neighbouring star, University of Granada)

Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place: in the center of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe.

(Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place, NASA)

Surprisingly, the loss of woodlands tended to be greater in protected forest reserves than in the more populated Chobe District.

(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)

It raises concern over increased vulnerability of coastal settlements in the populated, low- to middle- income tropical countries to extreme weather events.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

EXAMPLE(S): Fire drill - forgot to ask, subject refused, sample lost, broken equipment; NOTE(S): This value should only be populated if PerformedObservationResult.value is null.

(Performed Observation Result Value Null Flavor Reason, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)