generation

n.

1. All of the offspring that are at the same stage of descent from a common ancestor: Mother and daughters represent two generations.
2. Biology. A form or stage in the life cycle of an organism: asexual generation of a fern.
3. The average interval of time between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring.
4. 1. A group of individuals born and living about the same time.
   2. A group of generally contemporaneous individuals regarded as having common cultural or social characteristics and attitudes: “They're the television generation” (Roger Enrico).
5. 1. A stage or period of sequential technological development and innovation.
   2. A class of objects derived from a preceding class: a new generation of computers.
6. The formation of a line or geometric figure by the movement of a point or line.
7. The act or process of generating; origination, production, or procreation.

generational gen'er·a'tion·al adj.
generationally gen'er·a'tion·al·ly adv.

Term referring to the number of times a film, audiotape, or videotape has been reproduced since the original master. First generation refers to a film or tape that has been duplicated directly from the master, second generation refers to a film or tape that has been reproduced from the first generation; and so on. The technical quality diminishes as the number of generations increases.

n

Definition: creation, production
Antonyms: destruction

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time The typical interval from one generation to the next, ranging from hours for bacteria through days to weeks for very many organisms, to decades. For the humans it is taken to be 25 to 35 years, though procreation can occur from 10 years old to 50 and now 60 for the female, to over 80 for the male.

An age-based subgroup consisting of people in adjacent birth cohorts, in which most members have shared a similar sociohistorical event in a similar manner (e.g. the baby boom generation). This event often influences life chances and life styles throughout the life cycle. Different generations may experience different processes of socialization, which may result in conflict due to what has been called the generation gap. A recent example in sport is the decline in popularity among young people of team sports in favour of individual activities, while many older people still retain their enthusiasm for team sports.

1. the process of reproduction.
2. a class composed of all individuals removed by the same number of successive ancestors from a common predecessor, or occupying positions on the same level in a genealogical (pedigree) chart. Said also of antibiotics or other chemicals derived from parent compounds.

• alternate g. — reproduction by alternate asexual and sexual means in an animal or plant species.
• asexual g. — production of a new organism not originating from union of gametes. Called also direct generation.
• direct g. — see asexual generation (above).
• filial g. (first) — the first generation offspring of two parents; symbol F₁.
• filial g. (second) — all of the offspring produced by two individuals of the first filial generation; symbol F₂.
• g. interval — the mean age of the parents when the animals that are to replace them are born.
• parental g. — the generation with which a particular genetic study is begun; symbol P₁.
• sexual g. — production of a new organism from the zygote formed by the union of gametes.
• spontaneous g. — the discredited concept of continuous generation of living organisms from nonliving matter.
• g. time — 1. in epidemiological terms the time required between infection occurring and the patient reaching full infectivity.
— 2. in histological terms the time required to complete one full cell cycle; average of 20 hours for mammalian cells.

IN BRIEF: A single stage in the history of a family. Also: All the people born at about the same time.

Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another. — Richard Garnett.

Quotes:

"The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us." - Oscar Wilde

"A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood -- a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy." - Elwyn Brooks White

"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous." - Charles Dudley Warner

"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule." - Horace Walpole

"Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity." - Source Unknown

"I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it." - Henry David Thoreau

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - generation, slægtsled, udvikling

idioms:

• generation gap    generationskløft

Nederlands (Dutch)
generatie, opwekking, voortplanting

Français (French)
n. - génération, production, création

idioms:

• generation gap    fossé des générations

Deutsch (German)
n. - Generation, Zeugung, Erzeugung

idioms:

• generation gap    Generationsunterschied

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γέννηση, γένεση, παραγωγή, γενιά, δημιουργία

idioms:

• generation gap    χάσμα των γενεών

Italiano (Italian)
generazione, classe

idioms:

• generation gap    differenza generazionale

Português (Portuguese)
n. - geração (f)

idioms:

• generation gap    conflito (m) de gerações

Русский (Russian)
поколение, потомство, порождение, зарождение, производство

idioms:

• generation gap    проблема отцов и детей

Español (Spanish)
n. - generación, reproducción

idioms:

• generation gap    abismo o conflicto o diferencia generacional, brecha generacional

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - alstring, skapande, generation, fortplantning

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
一代, 产生, 一世

idioms:

• generation gap    代沟

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 一代, 產生, 一世

idioms:

• generation gap    代溝

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 세대

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 世代, 同時代の人々, 産出, 発生

idioms:

• generation gap    世代の断絶

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) جيل, توليد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮דור, יצירה, הולדה, פער הדורות‬

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