populosity

English

Etymology

From French populosité, from Latin populositas, from populosus (“populous”), or from populous +‎ -ity.

Noun

populosity (uncountable)

1. (now rare) Populousness.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 12:

     In what bulk or populosity it stood in the old East-angle Monarchy, tradition and history are silent.

   • 1803, Sylvester O'Halloran, An Introduction to and an History of Ireland, volume 1, page 407:

     When we read of the great populosity of ancient Ireland, in so much that she was obliged from time to time, to throw off part of this plethora by foreign invasions, we must naturally explore the causes of this amazing decay of inhabitants, in our own days!

   • 2010, Wilhelm Burger, Mark J. Burge, Principles of Digital Image Processing: Core Algorithms, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 88:

     The populosity algorithm1 [32] selects the n most frequent colors in the image as the representative set of color vectors C. Being very easy to implement, this procedure is quite popular.

   • 2012, Jonas Gomes, Luiz Velho, Mario Costa Sousa, Computer Graphics: Theory and Practice, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 154:

     6.7.1. Quantization by Direct Selection. An example of the quantization by direct selection method is the populosity algorithm.
     Populosity algorithm. This method initially constructs the frequency histogram of the image and then chooses, for the K quantization levels, the K colors appearing more frequently in the image gamut (i.e., the most populous colors).