Generation

[dʒenə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or ['dʒɛnə'reʃən]

解释:

(noun.) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production.

(noun.) the production of heat or electricity; 'dams were built for the generation of electricity'.

(noun.) group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent.

(noun.) the normal time between successive generations; 'they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade'.

(noun.) a stage of technological development or innovation; 'the third generation of computers'.

校对:伦道夫--From WordNet

解释:

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

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

(n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

(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.

(n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

(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.

(n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.

整理:皮尔斯

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Procreation.[2]. Production, formation.[3]. Progeny, offspring, succession of descendants.[4]. Family, stock, race, breed.

巴顿整理

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Age, period, era, epoch, lifetime, offspring, stock, race, origination, breed,progeny, formation

ANT:Perpetuity, eternity, immortality

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