Definitions for generation
ˌdʒɛn əˈreɪ ʃəngen·er·a·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. coevals, contemporaries, generationnoun

   all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

2. generationnoun

   group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

3. generationnoun

   the normal time between successive generations

   "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"

4. generationnoun

   a stage of technological development or innovation

   "the third generation of computers"

5. genesis, generationnoun

   a coming into being

6. generationnoun

   the production of heat or electricity

   "dams were built for the generation of electricity"

7. generation, multiplication, propagationnoun

   the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. generationnoun

   The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

2. generationnoun

   Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc

3. generationnoun

   That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspring.

4. generationnoun

   A period of around thirty years, the average amount of time before a child takes the place of its parents.

5. generationnoun

   A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy, or collectively the body of people who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one time.

6. generationnoun

   Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

   Thy mother's of my generation; what's she, if I be a dog? - Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, I-iii

7. generationnoun

   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.

8. generationnoun

   The aggregate of the functions and phenomena which attend reproduction.

   "There are four modes of generation in the animal kingdom: scissiparity or by fissiparous generation, gemmiparity or by budding, germiparity or by germs, and oviparity or by ova"

9. Etymology: From generacioun, from génération, from generatio, from generare; see generate.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Generationnoun

   Etymology: generation, French, from generate.

   1. The act of begetting or producing.

   Seals make excellent impressions; and so it may be thought of sounds in their first generation: but then the dilation of them, without any new sealing, shews they cannot be impressions. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   He longer will delay, to hear thee tell
   His generation, and the rising birth
   Of nature from the unapparent deep. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

   If we deduce the several races of mankind in the several parts of the world from generation, we must imagine the first numbers of them, who in any place agree upon any civil constitutions, to assemble as so many heads of families whom they represent. William Temple.

   2. A family; a race.

   Y’are a dog.
   ———— Thy mother’s of my generation: what’s she, if I be a dog? William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.

   3. Progeny; offspring.

   The barb’rous Scythian,
   Or he that makes his generation messes,
   To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom
   Be as well neighbour’d. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   4. A single succession; one gradation in the scale of genealogical descent.

   This generation shall not pass ’till all these things be fulfilled. Mat. xxiv. 34.

   In the fourth generation they shall come hither again. Gen.

   A marvellous number were excited to the conquest of Palestine, which with singular virtue they performed, and held that kingdom some few generations. Walter Raleigh, Essays.

   5. An age.

   By some of the ancients a generation was fixed at an hundred years; by others at an hundred and ten; by others at thirty-three, thirty, thirty-five, and twenty: but it is remarked, that the continuance of generations is so much longer as they come nearer to the more ancient times. Augustin Calmet.

   Every where throughout all generations and ages of the Christian world, no church ever perceived the word of God to be against it. Richard Hooker.

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1. generation

   A generation refers to a stage, level, or all the people born and living around the same time, regarded collectively, within a societal context. It can also refer to the average period, generally considered to be around twenty to thirty years, during which children grow up, become adults, and have children of their own. In a biological sense, a generation is a group of living organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Generationnoun

   the act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals

2. Generationnoun

   origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc

3. Generationnoun

   that which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring

4. Generationnoun

   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

5. Generationnoun

   race; kind; family; breed; stock

6. Generationnoun

   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

7. Generationnoun

   the aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction

8. Etymology: [OE. generacioun, F. gnration, fr.L. generatio.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Generation

   Generation, also known as biogenesis, reproduction, or procreation in biological sciences, is the act of producing offspring. In kinship terminology, it is a structural term designating the parent-child relationship. The term is also often used synonymously with cohort in social science, even though some researchers believe that this usage is misleading; under this formulation the term means "people within a delineated population who experience the same significant events within a given period of time." Generation in this sense of birth cohort, also known as a "social generation," is widely used in popular culture, and has been the basis for much social analysis. Serious analysis of generations began in the century, emerging from an increasing awareness of the possibility of permanent social change and the idea of youthful rebellion against the established social order. Some analysts believe that a generation is one of the fundamental social categories in a society, while others view its importance as being overshadowed by other factors such as class, gender, race, education and so on.

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1. generation

   The act and process of to generate.

   The generation of income for the business is planned and generated easily and effectively.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on July 17, 2020  

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Generation

   used as the equivalent of brood; q.v.

Matched Categories

1. • Biological Group
   • Phase
   • Production
   • Reproduction
   • Time Period

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'generation' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2094

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'generation' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3169

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'generation' in Nouns Frequency: #663

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of generation in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of generation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of generation in a Sentence

1. Ronnie Carrillo:

   He’s the third-generation welder to work on the snowman and it keeps getting better. the first time I saw it, I didn’t believe what I saw -- a tumbleweed snowman.

2. Mark Broadie:

   [ Se Ri Pak's 1998 US Women's Open ] win led to a huge growth in golf in South Korea which now has 4 of the top 10 and 39 of the top 100 players in the Rolex World Rankings, my guess is that Yasuhiko Abe will become an icon and role model in Japan and will inspire a generation of younger Japanese players( and likely beyond Japan).

3. Yuval Ben-Itzhak:

   There were several waves of these samples, usually four times per year. This crippled-sample generation lasted for about four years. The last wave was received at the beginning of the year 2013.

4. Brad Russell:

   Routers used to be seen as a purely functional device with a bunch of unsightly antennas that you'd hide inside a room, now they're designed to be Apple-esque things that are beautiful to look at. Some of these newfangled WiFi routers are here today ; others are coming soon. We ’ll be putting many of their claims to the test as the devices appear on the market. And we’ve already tested theEeroandGoogle Asus OnHubrouters — which had split results compared to other routers in our labs. Here’s what the newcomers are promising. Probably the biggest complaint among WiFi users is that there are places in the house where wireless signals don't quite reach. There are a number of solutions to this, including the use of WiFi extenders, but these can be a pain to use and they’re not always effective. For one thing, many of them use the same radios for both receiving and sending data, which cuts their throughput, or speed. Most of these repeaters also create a secondary network you must manually log onto during setup. Routers like the Eero and Luma( promised for June) take a different approach. Instead of one box sitting in the middle of your house beaming radio signals in all directions, these companies let you deploy multiple routers that communicate via mesh networking — so the WiFi router in your living room connects to the one in your study, which talks to the one upstairs in the master bedroom, and so on, blanketing your house in WiFi signals. In addition to testing Eero routers in our lab, both as a standalone device and as a three-pack, we installed a set of them in an editor's home, and found that the system largely lived up to its claims for wide coverage and easy setup. Every new generation of router technology is faster than the previous one. Routers that use the current WiFi radio protocol( known as 802.11 ac) can handle more data than those based on the previous protocol( 802.11 n) — and all of the recommended routers in our Ratings adhere to 802.11. ac. The next-generation devices, called.

5. Rick Perry:

   Job creation, not higher taxation, is the best form of revenue generation.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=generation
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Generation
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=generation
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/generation
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=generation
7. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=generation