ALL meanings of generation
gen·er·a·tion
G g - noun generation the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation. 1
- noun generation the term of years, roughly 30 among human beings, accepted as the average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring. 1
- noun generation a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc. Compare Beat Generation, Lost Generation. 1
- noun generation a group of individuals belonging to a specific category at the same time: Chaplin belonged to the generation of silent-screen stars. 1
- noun generation a single step in natural descent, as of human beings, animals, or plants. 1
- noun generation a form, type, class, etc., of objects existing at the same time and having many similarities or developed from a common model or ancestor (often used in combination): a new generation of anticancer drugs; a third-generation phone. 1
- noun generation the offspring of a certain parent or couple, considered as a step in natural descent. 1
- noun generation the act or process of generating; procreation. 1
- noun generation the state of being generated. 1
- noun generation production by natural or artificial processes; evolution, as of heat or sound. 1
- noun generation Biology. one complete life cycle. one of the alternate phases that complete a life cycle having more than one phase: the gametophyte generation. 1
- noun generation Mathematics. the production of a geometrical figure by the motion of another figure. 1
- noun generation Physics. one of the successive sets of nuclei produced in a chain reaction. 1
- noun generation (in duplicating processes, as photocopying, film, etc.) the distance in duplicating steps that a copy is from the original work. 1
- noun generation creation or production 1
- noun generation age group 1
- noun generation time measurement 1
- noun generation period of technological development 1
- noun generation production group 1
- noun generation All of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively. 1
- noun Technical meaning of generation An attempt to classify the degree of sophistication of programming languages. See First generation language -- Fifth generation language. 1
- noun generation The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation. 0
- noun generation The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. 0
- noun generation (now US regional) Race, family; breed. 0
- noun generation 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. 0
- noun generation (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Descendants, progeny; offspring. 0
- noun generation 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. 0
- noun generation A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology. 0
- noun generation (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; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc. 0
- noun generation A specific age range in which each person in that range can relate culturally to one another. 0
- noun generation A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions. 0
- countable noun generation A generation is all the people in a group or country who are of a similar age, especially when they are considered as having the same experiences or attitudes. 0
- countable noun generation A generation is the period of time, usually considered to be about thirty years, that it takes for children to grow up and become adults and have children of their own. 0
- countable noun generation You can use generation to refer to a stage of development in the design and manufacture of machines or equipment. 0
- adjective generation Generation is used to indicate how long members of your family have had a particular nationality. For example, second generation means that you were born in the country you live in, but your parents were not. 0
- uncountable noun generation Generation is also the production of a form of energy or power from fuel or another source of power such as water. 0
- noun generation the act or process of bringing into being; production or reproduction, esp of offspring 0
- noun generation a successive stage in natural descent of organisms: the time between when an organism comes into being and when it reproduces 0
- noun generation the individuals produced at each stage 0
- noun generation the normal or average time between two such generations of a species: about 35 years for humans 0
- noun generation a phase or form in the life cycle of a plant or animal characterized by a particular type of reproduction 0
- noun generation all the people of approximately the same age, esp when considered as sharing certain attitudes, etc 0
- noun generation production of electricity, heat, etc 0
- noun generation a set of nuclei formed directly from a preceding set in a chain reaction 0
- noun generation belonging to a generation specified as having been born in or as having parents, grandparents, etc, born in a given country 0
- noun generation belonging to a specified stage of development in manufacture, usually implying improvement 0
- noun generation the act or process of producing offspring; procreation 0
- noun generation a bringing into being; production 0
- noun generation a single stage or degree in the succession of natural descent 0
- noun generation the average period (about thirty years) between the birth of one generation and that of the next 0