generation

Meanings

Plural: generations

Noun

• all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
• group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
• the normal time between successive generations
  • "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
• a stage of technological development or innovation
  • "the third generation of computers"
• a coming into being
• the production of heat or electricity
  • "dams were built for the generation of electricity"
• the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
• The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
• The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
• Race, family; breed.
• 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.
• Descendants, progeny; offspring.
• 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.
• A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
• 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.
• A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
• A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
• A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
• A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.

Synonyms

coevals, contemporaries, genesis, multiplication, propagation

Related Words

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