generation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
geometry
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
television
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: generations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations […]
gloss: The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Race, family; breed.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
dialectal
uncountable
examples: Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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
gloss: Descendants, progeny; offspring.
pos: noun
tags: Nigeria
countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s.
gloss: A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the generation of a line or curve
gloss: A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
gloss: A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.
gloss: A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component mode, quality loss through additional generations is not such a problem. In this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while re-recording onto a third generation master […]
Each generation away from the original or master produces increased degradation in the image quality.
gloss: A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.
The glider is fast--it moves 2 cells every 3 generations. There is also a spinning thing (sixty degrees every 21 generations)
In B37/S23, it goes symmetrical after 10 ticks, and produces a familiar pair of B-heptominoes after 23 ticks (the next generation after this can be found in the rotor of a standard B3/S23 p46 oscillator):
Related words: generate
Derived words: aerogeneration
autogeneration
beat generation
biogeneration
cogeneration
congeneration
cybergeneration
electrogeneration
first-generation
generation to generation
generational
generation effect
generationer
generation gap
generationism
generation loss
generationology
generation ship
generation time
generationwide
greatest generation
hydrogeneration
intergeneration
intrageneration
multigeneration
neogeneration
new-generation
next-generation
next generation networking
once-in-a-generation
organs of generation
overgeneration
Peter Pan generation
photogeneration
pregeneration
regeneration
second-generation
second-harmonic generation
snowflake generation
strawberry generation
subgeneration
trigeneration
undergeneration
Windrush generation
World War II generation
X generation
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