populating

Verb

populate (third-person singular simple present populates, present participle populating, simple past and past participle populated)

1. (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
2. (transitive) To live in; to inhabit.
3. (intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.
4. (ambitransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
   • John clicked the Search button and waited for the list to populate.
5. To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.

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