generation

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Plural noun:
generations
  1. 1.

    (countable, uncountable)The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.

  2. 2.

    (countable, uncountable)The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.

  3. 3.

    (US, countable, dialectal, uncountable)(now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.

  4. 4.

    (countable, uncountable)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.

    This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1

    Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3

    All generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker

  5. 5.

    (Nigeria, countable, obsolete, uncountable)(now obsolete, Nigeria) Descendants, progeny; offspring.

  6. 6.

    (countable, uncountable)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.

  7. 7.

    (countable, uncountable)A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.

  8. 8.

    (countable, uncountable)(geometry) 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.

    the generation of a line or curve

  9. 9.

    (countable, uncountable)A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.

    Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.

  10. 10.

    (countable, uncountable)A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.

    People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.

  11. 11.

    (countable, uncountable)(television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.

  12. 12.

    (countable, uncountable)(cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.

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Middle English generacioun, from Old French generacion, and its etymon Latin generātiō, from generāre (to beget, generate). generate.

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