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Generation (IPA: /ˌdʒɛnɝˈeɪʃən/)


Generation (n.)

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

Generation (n.)

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

Generation (n.)

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

Generation (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.

Generation (n.)

Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

Generation (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.

Generation (n.)

The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.

Generation

All of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively

Generation

Division of elementary particles

Generation

2005 album by Audio Bullys

Generation

1975 album by Anarchic System

Generation

1963-1966 television series

Generation Synonyms

Coevals, Contemporaries

Generation Synonyms

Genesis

Generation Synonyms

Propagation, Multiplication

Spanish Translation

Generation in Spanish is Generacion

Tagalog Translation

Generation in Tagalog is Isang Panahon

Example Sentence (Quote)

" [Introduction to each Next Generation episode.]" - Star Trek: The Next Generation

Example Sentence (Quote)

" [To Kakuzu] The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of those never-ending cycles in life." - Naruto

Example Sentence (Quote)

"A generation on the verge of being lost, have been found." - George W. Bush

Example Sentence (Quote)

"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future." - Generation

Example Sentence (Quote)

" Every generation finds the drug it needs." - P. J. O'Rourke


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