generation
/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/ noun
Forms generations
- noun The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
- noun The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- noun (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
- noun 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.
- noun (now obsolete, Nigeria) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
- noun 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.
- noun A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
- noun (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. “the generation of a line or curve”
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English generacioun, from Old French generacion, and its etymon Latin generātiō, from generāre (“to beget, generate”). By surface analysis, generate + -ion.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
- noun Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
Etymology [OE. generacioun, F. génération, fr.L. generatio.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “generation”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details