Definition of "census" in Englisch

noun

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.

2. Count, tally.

3. (historical) A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.

4. (cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

verb

1. (transitive) To conduct a census on.

2. (intransitive) To collect a census.