Meaning

(chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Information..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Information.
2. (birdwatching) Information about the location of a bird.
3. (fandom slang) Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.
4. general
5. Alternative letter-case form of Gen (“member of the Gen Movement”).
6. To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.
7. (slang) A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).
8. (science fiction) To genetically engineer.

Example Sentences

Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.

I had some recent gen that they had been seen quite recently at Kunoth Well, a little dot on the map on the edge of the Tanami Desert.

genned with a LLM

Defining the devices so that they will be genned during the sysgen and installation is the other half.

The older, genned files are difficult to keep up-to-date and are unsupported for some newer NICs.

As the capacities of the large servers are exceeded, a new server is genned into the RAC cluster.

The Turing factories on Isis's small moon had fallen short of productivity goals, though another two factory units had been genned.

Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.

Word Forms

• gens
• genning
• genned

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When Should You Use Gen.?

Use gen. when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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