censuses

Noun

census (countable and uncountable, plural censuses or censusses or census)

1. An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
   • As you know, the Imperium has never been able to take a census of the Fremen. Everyone thinks that there are but few wandering here and there in the desert. My Lord, I suspect an incredible secret has been kept on this planet: that the Fremen exist in vast numbers- vast- and it is they who control...1984, 43:03 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Reverend Mother Ramallo, →OCLC
2. The people being treated in a healthcare facility, clinic or program.
3. Count, tally.
   • In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
4. (historical) A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.
5. A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

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