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English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō English generation Inherited from Middle English generacioun, from Old French generacion, and its etymon Latin generātiō, from generāre (“to beget, generate”). By surface analysis, generate + -ion.
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Noun
generation (countable and uncountable, plural generations)
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. [from 14th c.]
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. [from 14th c.]
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.
1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 192: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.
- (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed. [from 14th c.]
c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?
- 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. [from 14th c.]
- (now obsolete, Nigeria) Descendants, progeny; offspring. [15th–19th c.]
- 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. [from 17th c.]
2008, Edgar Thorpe, Objective English: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.
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology. [from 20th c.]
2009, Paul Deital, Harvey Deital, Abbey Deital, iPhone for Programmers:The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
- (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.
the generation of a line or curve
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.
- (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book: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 […]
2002, Keith Jack, Vladimir Tsatsoulin, Dictionary of Video and Television Technology, page 131:Each generation away from the original or master produces increased degradation in the image quality.
- (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
1989 November 20, Dean Hickerson, “Life: glider gun origin”, in comp.theory.cell-automata[1] (Usenet):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.
1999 June 15, hexatron, “A new hexagonal CA with a new glider”, in comp.theory.cell-automata[2] (Usenet):The glider is fast--it moves 2 cells every 3 generations. There is also a spinning thing (sixty degrees every 21 generations)
2008 June 25, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata[3] (Usenet):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):
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origination by some process; formation
- Armenian: ստեղծում (hy) (steġcum), ծնունդ (hy) (cnund), ծնում (hy) (cnum)
- Assamese: চাম (sam)
- Bulgarian: създа́ване (bg) n (săzdávane), образу́ване (bg) n (obrazúvane)
- Catalan: generació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 產生 / 产生 (zh) (chǎnshēng), 形成 (zh) (xíngchéng), 生成 (zh) (shēngchéng)
- Czech: generování (cs) n, produkce (cs) f
- Dutch: generatie (nl) f
- Estonian: põlvkond
- Finnish: kehittäminen (fi), tuottaminen (fi)
- French: génération (fr) f
- Frisian:
- West Frisian: generaasje c
- Galician: xeración (gl) f
- Georgian: შექმნა (šekmna), გენერირება (generireba), ფორმირება (pormireba)
- Italian: generazione (it) f
- Macedonian: созда́вање n (sozdávanje)
- Middle English: generacioun
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: generering m or f
- Nynorsk: generering f
- Polish: generowanie (pl) n, wytwarzanie (pl) n
- Portuguese: geração (pt) f
- Romanian: generare (ro) f
- Russian: созда́ние (ru) n (sozdánije), генери́рование (ru) n (generírovanije), формирова́ние (ru) n (formirovánije)
- Slovak: generovanie n
- Spanish: generación (es) f
- Swedish: skapelse (sv), generering c
- Tagalog: henerasyon
- Walloon: ahivaedje (wa) m, fôrmaedje m
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act of generating or begetting; procreation that which is generated or brought forth period of around thirty years single step in the succession of natural descent
- Albanian: gjeneratë f
- Arabic: جِيل (jīl), نَسْل (ar) m (nasl)
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew script: דָּרָא (dārā)
- Syriac: ܕܪܐ (dārā)
- Armenian: սերունդ (hy) (serund)
- Azerbaijani: nəsil (az)
- Bashkir: быуын (bïwïn)
- Belarusian: пакале́нне n (pakaljénnje), пакале́ньне n (pakaljénʹnje)
- Bhojpuri: पीढ़ी (pīṛhī)
- Bulgarian: поколе́ние (bg) n (pokolénie)
- Burmese: မျိုးဆက် (my) (myui:hcak)
- Catalan: generació (ca) f
- Cebuano: kaliwatan, kaliwat, henerasyon
- Chagatai: نَسْل (nsl)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 輩 / 辈 (zh) (bèi), 代 (zh) (dài), 世代 (zh) (shìdài)
- Czech: generace (cs) f, pokolení (cs) n
- Danish: generation c, slægtled n
- Dutch: generatie (nl) f
- Estonian: põlvkond
- Ewe: dzidzime n
- Faroese: ættarlið n, ættarliður m
- Finnish: sukupolvi (fi)
- French: génération (fr) f
- Galician: xeración (gl) f
- Georgian: თაობა (taoba)
- German: Generation (de) f, Geschlecht (de) n
- Greek: γενιά (el) f (geniá)
- Ancient Greek: γενεά f (geneá)
- Gujarati: પેઢી f (peḍhī)
- Hebrew: דּוֹר (he) m (dor)
- Hindi: पीढ़ी (hi) f (pīṛhī), पुश्त (hi) m (puśt), नस्ल m (nasla)
- Hungarian: nemzedék (hu), generáció (hu)
- Icelandic: kynslóð f
- Indonesian: generasi (id)
- Ingrian: polvi
- Japanese: 世代 (ja) (せだい, sedai)
- Kazakh: ұрпақ (urpaq)
- Khmer: ជំនាន់ (km) (cumnŏən), ញាតិ (km) (ñiət)
- Korean: 세대(世代) (ko) (sedae)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: nesl (ku)
- Kyrgyz: муун (ky) (muun)
- Lao: ຮຸ່ນ (hun), ສ່ຳ (sam)
- Latvian: paaudze f
- Lithuanian: karta (lt) f
- Macedonian: поколе́ние n (pokolénie), генера́ција f (generácija)
- Māori: reanga, whakareanga, whakatupuranga, whakatipuranga, whakapaparanga
- Middle English: generacioun
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: үүсэл (mn) (üüsel)
- Naga:
- Khiamniungan Naga: vītāu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: generasjon m
- Nynorsk: generasjon m
- Pashto: نسل (ps) m (nasl)
- Persian:
- Dari: نَسْل (fa) (nasl)
- Iranian Persian: نَسْل (fa) (nasl)
- Plautdietsch: Jennerazion f
- Polish: pokolenie (pl) n, generacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: geração (pt) f
- Romanian: generație (ro) f
- Russian: поколе́ние (ru) n (pokolénije), генера́ция (ru) f (generácija) (literary, stilted)
- Scottish Gaelic: ginealach m, linn m or f, glùn f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: поколе́ње n, покоље́ње n, генера́ција f
- Latin: pokolénje n, pokoljénje (sh) n, generácija (sh) f
- Slovak: pokolenie n, generácia f
- Slovene: generacija (sl) f
- Spanish: generación (es) f
- Swahili: kizazi (sw) class 7/8
- Swedish: generation (sv) c
- Tagalog: salinlahi, henerasyon
- Tajik: насл (tg) (nasl)
- Tetum: jerasaun
- Thai: รุ่น (th) (rûn), คราว (th) (kraao), ปูน (th) (bpuun), โคตร (th) (kôot)
- Turkish: nesil (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: نسل (nesl), گوبك (göbek)
- Turkmen: nesil
- Ukrainian: поколі́ння (uk) n (pokolínnja)
- Urdu: نَسْل f (nasl), پِیڑھی f (pīṛhī)
- Uyghur: نەسىل (nesil), بوغۇن (boghun)
- Uzbek: avlod (uz), nasl (uz)
- Vietnamese: thế hệ (vi)
- Walloon: djermêye (wa) f, djeneråcion (wa) f
- Yiddish: דור m (dor)
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group of people born in a specific range of years Translations to be checked: "the act of generating or begetting" Further reading
- “generation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “generation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- Raymond Williams (1983), “Generation”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 140.
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From Latin generatio.
Noun
generation c (singular definite generationen, plural indefinite generationer)
- generation (organisms or devices born or designed at the same time)
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Further reading
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin generatio.
Noun
generation f (plural generations)
- generation (procreation; begetting)
- generation (rank or degree in genealogy)
Swedish
Etymology
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Noun
generation c
- a generation
den yngre generationen- the younger generation
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