English edit

Etymology edit

super- +‎ population

Noun edit

superpopulation (plural superpopulations)

  1. The larger population from which a subpopulation is drawn.
    • 2015 December 4, “Turtle Dorsal Cortex Pyramidal Neurons Comprise Two Distinct Cell Types with Indistinguishable Visual Responses”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      For each number of subtypes from N = 1 (all cells are indistinct and members of one superpopulation) to N = the number of cells recorded (all cells are unique and no meaningful crossover exists among them) there is some finite range of threshold linkage distances for which N subtypes appear from the data.