Definition of censuses:
(n) :
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.
(n) :
Count, tally.
(v) :
(transitive) To conduct a census on.
(v) :
(intransitive) To collect a census.
(n) :
(cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.
(n) :
(historical) A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.