generation

1. n. The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals. Source: opted

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

3. n. That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring. Source: opted

4. 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. Source: opted

5. n. Race; kind; family; breed; stock. Source: opted

6. 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. Source: opted

7. n. The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction. Source: opted

8. n. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age Source: wordnet

9. n. group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent Source: wordnet

10. n. the normal time between successive generations Source: wordnet

11. n. a stage of technological development or innovation Source: wordnet

12. n. a coming into being Source: wordnet

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