| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | cen·sus |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s n s s |
| NOUN: | 1. An official, usually periodic enumeration of a population, often including the collection of related demographic information. 2. In ancient Rome, a count of the citizens and an evaluation of their property for taxation purposes. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: cen·sused, cen·sus·ing, cen·sus·ed
To include in a census; conduct a census of: “Every plant one centimeter in diameter or larger is censused every five years” (John P. Wiley, Jr., Smithsonian June 1991). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin c nsus, registration of citizens, from cnsre, to assess. See kens- in Appendix I.
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