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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024gen•er•a•tion /ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. - the entire group of individuals born and living at about the same time:[countable]the postwar generation.
- Sociology a group of individuals most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc.:[countable]referred to them as the "silent generation.''
- [countable] the term of years accepted as the average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring.
- a stage of technological development or production:[countable]a new generation of computers.
- [uncountable] the act or process of generating;
the state of being generated. gen•er•a•tion•al, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024gen•er•a•tion ( jen′ə rā′shən),USA pronunciation n. - the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time:the postwar generation.
- the term of years, roughly 30 among human beings, accepted as the average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring.
- Sociologya group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc. Cf. Beat Generation, Lost Generation.
- a group of individuals belonging to a specific category at the same time:Chaplin belonged to the generation of silent-screen stars.
- a single step in natural descent, as of human beings, animals, or plants.
- a form, type, class, etc., of objects existing at the same time and having many similarities or developed from a common model or ancestor:a new generation of computers.
- the offspring of a certain parent or couple, considered as a step in natural descent.
- the act or process of generating;
procreation. - the state of being generated.
- production by natural or artificial processes;
evolution, as of heat or sound. - Developmental Biology[Biol.]
- one complete life cycle.
- one of the alternate phases that complete a life cycle having more than one phase:the gametophyte generation.
- Mathematicsthe production of a geometrical figure by the motion of another figure.
- Physicsone of the successive sets of nuclei produced in a chain reaction.
- Library Science, Printing(in duplicating processes, as photocopying, film, etc.) the distance in duplicating steps that a copy is from the original work.
- Latin generātiōn- (stem of generātiō). See generate, -ion
- Middle French
- Middle English generacioun 1250–1300
gen′er•a′tion•al, adj. gen′er•a′tion•al•ly, adv. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: generation /ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən/ n - the act or process of bringing into being; production or reproduction, esp of offspring
- a successive stage in natural descent of organisms: the time between when an organism comes into being and when it reproduces
- the individuals produced at each stage
- the normal or average time between two such generations of a species: about 35 years for humans
- all the people of approximately the same age, esp when considered as sharing certain attitudes, etc
- production of electricity, heat, etc
- (modifier, in combination) belonging to a generation specified as having been born in or as having parents, grandparents, etc, born in a given country: a third-generation American
- belonging to a specified stage of development in manufacture, usually implying improvement: a second-generation computer
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