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English - English (Wordnet) dictionary (also found in English - Vietnamese, Computing (FOLDOC))
generation
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Noun
  • the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
  • the production of heat or electricity
    • dams were built for the generation of electricity
  • a coming into being
  • 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
  • all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
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