Meaning of 'generation' (Webster Dictionary)
- The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of
animals.
- Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or
vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases,
of curves, etc.
- That which is generated or brought forth; progeny;
offspiring.
- 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.
- Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
- 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.
- The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which
attend reproduction.
Meaning of 'generation' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- the production of heat or electricity
Example in sentence:- dams were built for the generation of electricity
Meaning (2):
- a stage of technological development or innovation
Example in sentence:- the third generation of computers
Meaning (3):
- the normal time between successive generations
Example in sentence:- they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade
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