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Definition generation

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin gener?ti?, from gener?re, present active infinitive of gener? (“to beget, generate”). Compare generate.

Noun

generation (countable and uncountable, plural generations)

1. The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation. [from 14th c.]
2. The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. [from 14th c.]
3. (now US regional) Race, family; breed. [from 14th c.]
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. [from 14th c.]
5. (obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring. [15th-19th c.]
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. [from 17th c.]
7. A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology. [from 20th c.]
8. (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.
9. A specific age range in which each person in that range can relate culturally to one another.
10. A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.

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