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generation

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noun/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
  1. 1

    The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.countableuncountable

    • The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations […]
  2. 2

    The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.countableuncountable

    • So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.
    • Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.
  3. 3

    Race, family; breed.UScountabledialectal

    • Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?
  4. 4

    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.countableuncountable

    • This is the book of the generations of Adam
    • Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations
  5. 5

    Descendants, progeny; offspring.Nigeriacountableobsolete

  6. 6

    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.countableuncountable

    • 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.
  7. 7

    A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.countableuncountable

    • The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
  8. 8

    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.countableuncountable

    • the generation of a line or curve
  9. 9

    A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.countableuncountable

    • Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
  10. 10

    A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.countableuncountable

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

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