Etimology
From Middle English generacioun, from Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin generātiō, from generāre, present active infinitive of generō (“to beget, generate”). Compare generate.
noun
generation (countable and uncountable, plural generations)
The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. [from 14th c.]
The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. [from 14th c.]
(now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed. [from 14th c.]
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. [from 14th c.]
(obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring. [15th–19th c.]
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. [from 17th c.]
A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology. [from 20th c.]
(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.
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.
(television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.
(cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
Examples
The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations […]
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 extendeth not to Plants.
According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה ] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.
Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?
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
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.
The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
the generation of a line or curve
Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.
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 […]
Each generation away from the original or master produces increased degradation in the image quality.
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.
The glider is fast--it moves 2 cells every 3 generations. There is also a spinning thing
In B37/S23, it goes symmetrical after 10 ticks, and produces a familiar pair of B-heptominoes after 23 ticks :
Related words
hyponyms
alternate generation
Beat Generation
Facebook generation
Generation Jones
Generation X
Generation Y
Generation Z
Greatest Generation
Greatest Generation
lost generation
me generation
microgeneration
MSN generation
MTV generation
next generation
Nintendo generation
sandwich generation
Silent Generation
spontaneous generation
Stolen Generation
related terms
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