generation
IPA: dʒɛnɝˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
- 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.
- (obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
- 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.
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
- (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.
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.
- (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
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Examples of "generation" in Sentences
- $self = ~ s / my \$generation = (\d+); / 'my $generation ='.
- Years before the term "generation gap" was coined, "Hound Dog" drew the line between the new and the old.
- The term generation is used in reference to birth cohorts, a group of individuals born at the same general period of time.
- In this column I will use the term generation 2 garbage collection instead of full garbage collection, but they are interchangeable.
- I prefer to reflect on the cops at their listening post (in the bread van?) hearing the ancient prayers: "Not in one generation alone have they risen against us, but in every generation .
- Individual traits are not transmitted from the hen to the egg, but they develop out of germinal factors which are carried along from _cell to cell, and from generation to generation_ ....”
- But where, as in the present section, we treat the descent theory apart from the evolution theory, we have also to think of the possibility that the species or groups of species are not originated through gradual development, but nevertheless do originate through descent -- namely, in leaps through metamorphosis of germs or a heterogenetic generation; and for such an idea we find confirmation in the {74} observation of the history of development of animals, which we call _change of generation_ or
- It might be safe and legitimate enough, when we find a fossil organism imbedded in the earth, to ascribe its production to the ordinary law of generation, even although we had not witnessed the fact of its birth, provided the same species is known to have existed previously; but when we find _new races_ coming into being, for which the ordinary law of derivation cannot account, we are not at liberty to apply the same rule to a case so essentially different, and still less to postulate _a spontaneous generation_, or a _transmutation of species_, for which we have no experience at all.
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