Word Finder - generation

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The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.

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The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.

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Race, family; breed.

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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.

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This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1

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Descendants, progeny; offspring.

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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.

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A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.

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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.

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the generation of a line or curve

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A specific age range whose members can relate culturally to one another.

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Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.

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A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.

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People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.

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A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.

This generation has no idea.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

I am third generation PMF, like Brady.

The independent plant which is generally attached to the soil by hair-like structures is the sexual generation, the sporophyte is a stalked or sessile capsule which remains always attached to the gametophyte from which it derives the whole or part of its nourishment.

It was a way for that generation to ask, Why is there war?

He was descended in the sixth generation from Jonathan Dickinson, first president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and his ancestors had been closely connected with the Presbyterian church.

We need to protect the environment for the next generation.

The interior was marble and polished wood, dating back to a time when first generation craftsmen took pride in their workmanship.

The young generation held the field.

Caring for the Next Generation, January 2002.

Well, the traditional roles of men and women have changed in the last generation.

Whence it follows that all things to which men attribute reality, generation and destruction, being and not-being, change of place, alteration of colour are no more than empty words.

Generation after generation passed more and more into real Italians.

The genital products were derived from the lining of the coelomic cavities, but it would not be safe to say that any particular region was as yet specialized for generation.

Yeah, but your mother and father were from a different generation.

Males in nearly all species appear once a year, when the last female generation, the ovigerous generation, is fertilized, and a few large ova are produced to carry on the continuity of the species over the winter.

In the last generation all that has changed, and the change is of a permanent character.

For the fulfilment of this last condition, the older insects of the new generation must emerge from the cells while the mother is still occupied with the younger eggs or larvae.

She surprised her generation by being able to speak the many tongues of her subjects.

It formed the rallying-ground for the new generation which chafed under the tyranny of a 1?

The new generation of 65-nanometer desktop and laptop chips under the brand name Core 2 Duo will launch this summer, the company says.

A generation before it is certain that England would have been convulsed by a great feudal rising when such an opportunity was granted to the barons.

They ruled out the claimof Robert Bruce, the son of Davids second daughter, who had raised the plea that his descent was superior because he was a generation nearer than Baliol to their common ancestor.

The model is readily extensible to more complex sound generation processes.

To people of my parents ' generation (they're both 70) takeaway food is considered a real extravagance!

True Lies The Garden An early morning fable for the post-secular, post-everything generation.

These staff regularly use high energy scalers, which have a large potential for aerosol generation.

For a new highly self-aware generation of writers modernism is just one piece of a much larger literary jigsaw puzzle.

With the brand we're really trying to express the sentiments of youth, the new generation.

Dear your generation, That whole, hope I die before I get old thing seems a little silly now, doesn't it?

Leah visited Cass in Los Angeles and soon found herself among the new generation of Hollywood pop songwriters.

Muscle Types Muscle tissue consists of fibers (cells) that are highly specialized for the active generation of force for contraction.

A purely structuralist account of the issue is represented in Eisenstadt's From Generation to Generation (1956 ).

Natural language generation tries to eliminate part of that problem by producing natural language utterances, on the basis of a given formal input.

Heiner is extraordinarily versatile, and this basic attitude resonates with a younger generation of musicians.

Julian was one of the most talented classical keyboard virtuosos of his generation.

The company's researchers recently released a new generation of planar waveguides.

The latest generation has an extended wheelbase which means the interior has also grown in length and width.

This third generation winemaker is the grandson of Ron.. .

His researches from 1860 and onwards on the then vexed question of spontaneous generation proved that, in all cases where spontaneous generation appeared to have taken place, some defect or other was in the experiment.

Those finer particles of the blood which become extremely rarefied during this process pass off in two directions - one portion, and the least important in the theory, to the organs of generation, the other portion to the cavities of the brain.

But Ivan, wiser in his generation, knew that the thing was impossible, in view of the immense distance to be traversed, and the predominance of the Grand Turk from whom it would have to be wrested.

Thebes had taken up arms. By a forced march he took the Thebans completely by surprise, and in a few days the city, which a generation before had won the headship of Greece, was taken.

The report of the committee on faith and modern thought is "a faithful attempt to show how the claim of our Lord Jesus Christ, which the Church is set to present to each generation, may, under the characteristic conditions of our time, best command allegiance."

After the formation of the province and the familiar use of the provincial name in the Dominion parliament, where it has occupied much attention for a generation, the pronunciation has changed, so that the province is universally known from ocean to ocean as Man-i-tõ-ba.

Discovery had outrun theory; the rush of new facts made Ptolemy practically obsolete in a generation, after having been the fount and origin of all geography for a millennium.

Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries the rapidly accumulating store of facts as to the extent, outline and mountain and river systems of the lands of the earth were put in order by the generation of cartographers of which Mercator was the chief; but the writings of Apian and Munster held the field for a hundred years without a serious rival, unless the many annotated editions of Ptolemy might be so considered.

As it could be acquired by grant of the sovereign, and as, when once acquired, it went on from generation to generation, it answers exactly to the jus imaginum at Rome, the hereditary badge of nobility conferred by the election of the people.

He's a fascinating pop figure, and probably the best tunesmith of his generation.

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