Generation
[dʒenə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or ['dʒɛnə'reʃən]
Definition
(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'.
Editor: Randolph--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Pierce
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Procreation.[2]. Production, formation.[3]. Progeny, offspring, succession of descendants.[4]. Family, stock, race, breed.
Edited by Barton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Age, period, era, epoch, lifetime, offspring, stock, race, origination, breed,progeny, formation
ANT:Perpetuity, eternity, immortality
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Examples
- If for a generation or so machinery has had to wait its turn in the mine, it is simply because for a time men were cheaper than machinery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In a generation or two, education, emigration, improvements in agriculture and manufactures, may have provided the solution. Plato. The Republic.
- They are not examples to be followed by us; for the use of language ought in every generation to become clearer and clearer. Plato. The Republic.
- As is well known to the wise in their generation, traffic in Shares is the one thing to have to do with in this world. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Everything he says will seem wonderful to their short lived generation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I had always been his favorite among the younger generation of Carters and so I hastened to comply with his demand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They have not done till this generation; but I feel as if it were my vocation to turn out a new variety of the Yorke species. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In the case of most animals the new generation is on trial in a year or less. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I have altogether perished from the remembrance of the living, and in the next generation my place was a blank. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The poorness of the pasture had, in his opinion, occasioned the degradation of their cattle, which degenerated sensibly from me generation to another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The achievements accumulated from generation to generation are deposited in it even though some of them have fallen temporarily out of use. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The growth of steam navigation during the present generation has been wonderfully rapid. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And this was not a couple of generations after the hosts of Xerxes had crossed the Hellespont! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But other generations will arise, and ever and for ever will continue, to be made happier by our present acts, to be glorified by our valour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Hindu priest is a part of the family life of his flock, between whom and himself the tie has existed for many generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The variability, however, in the successive generations of mongrels is, perhaps, greater than in hybrids. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- That sort of mutual friction might go on for many generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All savage and primitive peoples of to-day, on the contrary, are soaked in tradition--the tradition of thousands of generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- For many precious generations the new-lit fires of the human intelligence were to be seriously banked down by this by-product. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Still, the fame of being spoken of by succeeding generations. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I however learned from it that I was the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Thus we have seen how the birth of ideas of former generations has given rise in the present age to children of a larger growth. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- For generations they were blacksmiths and husbandmen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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