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| gen·er·a·tion [ jènnə ráysh'n ] (plural gen·er·a·tions) |
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1. group of contemporaries: all of the people who were born at approximately the same time, considered as a group, and especially when considered as having shared interests and attitudes
  the younger generation
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2. stage in descent: a single stage in the descent of a family or a group of people, animals, or plants, or the individual members of that stage
three generations down the line
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3. time taken to produce new generation: the period of time that it takes for people, animals, or plants to grow up and produce their own offspring, in humans held to be between 30 and 35 years
after three generations of war and conflict
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4. particular generation in sequence: a particular numbered stage in the sequence of generations of a person being identified with a particular characteristic
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usually used in combination
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a first-generation immigrant
a third-generation graduate
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5. new type: a particular stage in the development of a product or technology, especially one marking a significant advance
one of the new generation of computers
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6. phase in life cycle: one of the successive phases that make up the life cycle of some organisms
the gametophyte generation
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7. production of power: the production of electricity, heat, or some other form of energy
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8. production of young: the act or process of bringing offspring into being
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9. mathematics generating of group or shape: the act or process of generating a set, sequence, curve, or surface
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10. physics nuclei in chain reaction: in a chain reaction, a group of nuclei that come from a previous group
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11. business business software reformatting function: a business software function that translates data from a company's internal format into one that can be recognized outside the company after transmission.
See also interpretation (sense 5)
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| gen·er·a·tion·al adjective |
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