Word Finder - generations

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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.

It's hard to know what later generations will deem to be art.

This must be generations of collecting.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Instead of designer thongs or flimsy lace things, Ethel wore the plainest of cotton panties, the type described by past generations as 'practi­cal.'

Tim had been prepared for this day by two generations of ambitious men who intended to see someone of their bloodline in the seat of power.

Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God, he added, and closed his eyes.

She hadn't outsmarted generations of deities and Immortals while laden with emotions, but she had still done it.

I've been a friend of his family for generations.

The enigmatic Tim's request for a favor was readily granted after three generations of both their families working together towards the PMF's goals of national unity.

This powerful family possessed for many generations before 369 B.C. the privilege of furnishing the Tagus, or generalissimo, of the combined Thessalian forces.

In such cases the original parent-actinula does not itself become a medusa, but remains arrested in development and ultimately dies off, so that a true alternation of generations is brought about.

On the question of the date a comparison of genealogies of Maori chiefs shows that, up to the beginning of the 10th century, about eighteen generations or probably not much more than five centuries had passed since the first Maori arrivals.

When, as often, the great figures have been made the spokesmen of the thought of subsequent generations, the historical criticism of the prophecies becomes one of peculiar difficulty.

To the later generations David was pre-eminently the Psalmist and the founder of the Temple service.

If we take the mere popular view of what is meant by the " old Political Economy," that is, that a generation or so ago economics was comprised in a neatly rounded set of general propositions, universally accepted, which could be set forth in a question we have really to determine is how we can make the best use of the accumulated knowledge of past generations, and to do that we must look more closely into the economic science of the 10th century..

He could not have been what he was unless two generations before him had laboured at the problem of finding an intellectual expression and a philosophic basis for Christianity (Justin, Tatian, Athenagoras, Pantaenus, Clement).

In other gallflies and in aphids we find that a sexual generation alternates with one or with many virgin generations.

The flour-moth (Epheslia kuhniella) sometimes passes through five or six generations in a single year.

The resistance was well maintained in succeeding generations, and races so raisedDform a practical means of combating this serious disease.

His public lectures, indeed, were never largely attended, but in his more private classes, where he dealt with the technical work of a historian, he trained generations of scholars.

He sprang from a Roman Catholic family which for some generations had held important posts in the Hanoverian civil service.

The second half of the 17th century witnessed remarkable transitions and developments in all branches of natural science,and the facts accumulated by preceding generations during their generally unordered researches were re placed by a co-ordination of experiment and deduction.

Moreover, they contain many allusions to personal events which, later generations have forgotten.

Raskolniks or Nonconformists in the second half of the 17th century, rebel stryeltsy under Peter the Great, courtiers of rank during the reigns of the empresses, Polish confederates under Catherine II., the " Decembrists " under Nicholas I., nearly 50,000 Poles after the insurrection of 1863, and later on whole generations of socialists were sent to Siberia; while the number of common-law convicts and exiles transported thither increased steadily from the end of the 18th century.

Others again consider that the whole cycle is a metamorphosis which, beginning in the Heterocotylea as a direct development, has become complicated in the Holostomidae by a larval history, and finally in the Malacocotylea has acquired additional complexity by the intercalation of two larval forms, and is thus spread over several generations.

His family were originally Prussians, and served in the Spanish army for several generations.

During the lapse of untold generations, despite domestic anarchy and foreign conquest, the Hindu village has in many parts preserved its simple customs, written in the imperishable tablets of tradition.

After the time of Aails the Ynglingar remained in possession of Upsala for four generations according to the saga.

It will be regarded as a human right—a dividend for being born a human being, your share of the inheritance that all the prior generations accumulated.

You can help future generations by helping to answer the question of 'what is global warming?' when those who don't know ask you.

Just as each one of us has done our part in creating these problems, each of us can take measures to prevent further damage and correct some of the damage already done, paving the way towards a healthier planet for future generations.

Sustainable development aims to establish a system of resource consumption that both meets the needs of human life and leaves the environment healthy enough to continue to produce the resources future generations will need.

Not only will they be saving money on their water bill, but they will be helping to conserve our most precious natural resource for generations to come.

The few family relatives I had were city people, for generations.

I trust you more than anyone, Jule, but these rumors of wars between immortals have been around for three generations of White Gods.

About 1760 a Moslem chieftain, Mehemet of Bushat, after obtaining the pashalik of Scutari from the Porte, succeeded in establishing an almost independent sovereignty in Upper Albania, which remained hereditary in his family for some generations.

In Cunina parasitica, however, the ovum develops into an actinula, which buds actinulae as before, but only the daughter-actinulae develop into medusae, while the original, parent-actinula dies off; here, therefore, larval budding has led to a true alternation of generations.

The actinula, when free, may multiply by larval budding, but in all cases both the original actinula and all its descendants become converted into medusae, so that there is no alter nation of generations.

There is no handing on of privilege or pre-eminence to perpetual generations.

Previous to this period the husbandry of Scotland was still in a backward state as compared with the best districts of England, where many practices, only of recent introduction in the north, had been in general use for generations.

There is in existence a vast store of accumulated knowledge, and few, if any, departments of economics have been left quite unilluminated by the researches of former generations.

A correct sense of proportion and the faculty of seizing upon the dominant factors in an historical problem are the result partly of the possession of certain natural gifts in which many individuals and some nations are conspicuously wanting, partly of general knowledge of the working of the economic and political institutions of the period we are studying, partly of what takes the place of practical experience in relation to modern problems, namely, detailed acquaintance with different kinds of original sources and the historical imagination by which we can realize the life and the ideals of past generations.

For many generations the charitable foundations for the teaching and training of youth were a conspicuous feature in the economy of the city.

New generations grew up almost as ignorant as their fathers, but not with the same sense of dependence upon the white men.

The time had come when the results obtained in the development and application of the law of gravitation by three generations of illustrious mathematicians might be presented from a single point of view.

The assumption made was that (with the rare exception of parasites) all the change of structure through which the successive generations of animals have passed has been one of progressive elaboration.

Having obtained a first hybrid generation, he allowed the hybrids to self-fertilize, and recorded the result in a large number of instances (a thousand or more) as to the number of individuals in the first, second, third and fourth generations in which the character selected for experiment made its appearance.

In subsequent generations produced by self-fertilization of the hybrids it was found that the positive character was not present in all the individuals, but that a result was obtained showing that in the formation of the reproductive cells (ova and sperms) of the hybrid, half were endowed with the positive character and half with the negative.

The tendency of the proportions in the offspring of 'PP, 2PN, INN is to give in a series of generations a regular reversion from the hybrid form PN to the two pure races, viz.

In the course of several generations, Lamarck argued, a structural alteration amounting to such difference as we call " specific " might be thus acquired.