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n. All of the offspring that are at the same stage of descent from a common ancestor: Mother and daughters represent two generations.

n. Biology A form or stage in the life cycle of an organism: asexual generation of a fern.

n. The average interval of time between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring.

n. A group of individuals born and living about the same time.

n. A group of generally contemporaneous individuals regarded as having common cultural or social characteristics and attitudes: "They're the television generation” ( Roger Enrico).

n. A stage or period of sequential technological development and innovation.

n. A class of objects derived from a preceding class: a new generation of computers.

n. The formation of a line or geometric figure by the movement of a point or line.

n. The act or process of generating; origination, production, or procreation.

n. The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

n. Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc

n. That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspring.

n. A period of around thirty years, the average amount of time before a child takes the place of its parents.

n. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy, or collectively the body of people who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one time.

n. Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

n. 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; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.

n. The aggregate of the functions and phenomena which attend reproduction.

n. The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

n. Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation

n. That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

n. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.

n. Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

n. 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

n. The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.

n. The act, process, or function of generating or begetting; procreation; propagation; reproduction; multiplication of kind.

n. In theology, the communication of the Divine Essence from God the Father to God the Son.

n. A bringing out or forth; evolution, as from a source or cause; production, especially by some natural process or causation: as, the generation of sounds.

n. In mathematics, the description of a geometrical figure by the motion of a point, line, plane, or figure, in accordance with a mathematical law. Also genesis.

n. That which is generated; progeny; offspring.

n. A single succession of living beings in natural descent, as the offspring or descendants in the same degree of the same parents.

n. The whole body of persons of the same period or living at the same time: as, the present generation.

n. Family; race; kind; by extension, any allied or associated group of persons; a class.

n. The age or period of a generation; hence, the average lifetime of all persons of synchronous age.

n. Same as spontaneous generation

n. The individuals of a given mineral species which have been formed at the same time and under similar conditions, as in the solidification of an igneous rock, or the deposits in a mineral vein.

n. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

n. the production of heat or electricity

n. the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

n. the normal time between successive generations

n. group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

n. a coming into being

n. a stage of technological development or innovation

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