generation

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
2. (countable, uncountable) The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
3. (US, countable, dialectal, uncountable) Race, family; breed.
4. (countable, uncountable) 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.
5. (Nigeria, countable, obsolete, uncountable) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
6. (countable, uncountable) 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.
7. (countable, uncountable) A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
8. (countable, uncountable) 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.
9. (countable, uncountable) A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
10. (countable, uncountable) A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
11. (countable, uncountable) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
12. (countable, uncountable) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.

Synonyms

age

production

era

procreation

birth

lifetime

propagation

period

life

reproduction

formation

world

🗺️

race

contemporaries

multiplication

coevals

creation

genesis

begetting

family

👪

generate

brood

age class

age group

age-group

breeding

clan

peer

produce

progeniture

stage

time

⌚

tribe

peer group

geniture

increase

induction

initiation

knee

engender

life cycle

descendents

lineage

manufacture

moment

descendent

nascency

nativity

output

pedigree

Translations

génération

generazione

generación

Generation

geração

generatie

generació

nesil

γενιά

geslacht

👉👌

kuşak

Geschlecht

👉👌

multiplication

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: generacioun

In summary

Inherited from Middle English generacioun, from Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin generātiō, from generāre (“to beget, generate”). By surface analysis, generate + -ion.

Sentences

Applications include power generation for combined cycle or peak power .

For the generation of uniform random variates , see Random number generation .