Pronunciations (2)
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/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
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ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən
Noun
The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
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The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations […]
The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
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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.
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According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] 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.
Race, family; breed.
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Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?
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.
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All generations and ages of the Christian church
Descendants, progeny; offspring.
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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.
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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.
A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
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The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
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.
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the generation of a line or curve
A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
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Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
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People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.
A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
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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.
A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
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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 (sixty degrees every 21 generations)
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In B37/S23, it goes symmetrical after 10 ticks, and produces a familiar pair of B-heptominoes after 23 ticks (the next generation after this can be found in the rotor of a standard B3/S23 p46 oscillator):
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all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
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group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
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the normal time between successive generations
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they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade
a stage of technological development or innovation
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the third generation of computers
a coming into being
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the production of heat or electricity
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dams were built for the generation of electricity
the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
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