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Generation
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- 1 The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. countable, uncountable
"The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations […]"
- 2 the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production wordnet
- 3 The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. countable, uncountable
"So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire."
- 4 the production of heat or electricity wordnet
- 5 Race, family; breed. US, countable, dialectal, uncountable
"Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?"
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- 6 a coming into being wordnet
- 7 A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit. countable, uncountable
"This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1"
- 8 group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent wordnet
- 9 Descendants, progeny; offspring. Nigeria, countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 10 all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age wordnet
- 11 The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time. countable, uncountable
"Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s."
- 12 the normal time between successive generations wordnet
- 13 A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology. countable, uncountable
"The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success."
- 14 a stage of technological development or innovation wordnet
- 15 The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc. countable, uncountable
"the generation of a line or curve"
- 16 A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another. countable, uncountable
"Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties."
- 17 A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions. countable, uncountable
"People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation."
- 18 A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy. countable, uncountable
"With one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component mode, quality loss through additional generations is not such a problem. In this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while re-recording onto a third generation master […]"
- 19 A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern. countable, uncountable
"It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English generacioun, from Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin generātiō, from generāre (“to beget, generate”). By surface analysis, generate + -ion.
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