generation

Meaning

Noun

• The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
• The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• alternate generation
• Beat Generation
• Facebook generation
• Greatest Generation
• Generation Jones
• Generation X
• Generation Y
• Generation Z
• lost generation
• me generation
• MSN generation
• MTV generation
• next generation
• sandwich generation
• Silent Generation
• spontaneous generation
• Stolen Generation

Origin

• From Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin generātiō, from generāre, present active infinitive of generō. Compare generate.