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UK
/dʒˌɛnəɹˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌdʒɛnɝˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌdʒɛnɝˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a coming into being
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the production of heat or electricity
dams were built for the generation of electricity - the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
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a stage of technological development or innovation
the third generation of computers -
the normal time between successive generations
they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade - group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
How To Use generation In A Sentence
- My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
- Along with its strong existing base in micromachining, B.C. has all the resources necessary to play a leading role in the development of the next generations of nanotechnologies.
- There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency. We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
- The giant cross has become a familiar landmark to generations of San Franciscans.
- The example of the first fighter aces fixed itself in the imaginations of a generation being born just as they had met their deaths. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
- The authority of the father was absolute, as the head of a hierarchy arranged by generation, age and sex, in which every member of the extended family was related in rank to every other.
- There is much to ponder in Evans's paper that resuscitates many ideas from Arthur Holmes of a generation ago.
- Fifty years on and technology seems to have leapt on by generations as you see the mushroom shaped cloud of the first nuclear test bomb rising high above the New Mexico desert.