Usually means: Filling an area with inhabitants.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. populating: Merriam-Webster
  2. populating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. populating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Populating, populating: Wordnik
  5. populating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. populating: Wiktionary
  7. Populating, populating: Dictionary.com
  8. Populating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Populating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. populating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. populating: FreeDictionary.org
  12. populating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. populating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. populating: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Populating: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See populate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (populate)

verb:  (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
verb:  (transitive) To live in; to inhabit.
verb:  (intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.
verb:  (computing, ambitransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
verb:  (electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.
adjective:  (obsolete) populous
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