Generation

/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/ · noun

Meaning

The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
2. The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
3. (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
4. 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. (now obsolete, Nigeria) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
6. 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. A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
8. (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.

Example Sentences

The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations […]

So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.

Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.

According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.

Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?

This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1

Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3

All generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker

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