From en.wiktionary.org:
[Generation]
** English
[wp]
*** Etymology
[en] [en], from [en], [en], and their source, [en], from [la]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production , creation . [from 14th c.]
2. * [volume=II]
3. The act of creating a living creature or organism ; procreation . [from 14th c.]
4. * [IV]
5. * [text= GENERATION by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.]
6. * [chapter=V]
7. [en] Race , family ; breed . [from 14th c.]
8. * [I]
9. 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. [from 14th c.]
10. * [en]
11. *: This is the book of the GENERATIONS of Adam - Genesis 5:1
12. * [en]
13. *: Ye shall remain there [ in Babylon ] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven GENERATIONS - Baruch 6:3
14. [en] Descendants , progeny ; offspring . [15th]
15. 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. [from 17th c.]
16. * [en]
17. A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology . [from 20th c.]
18. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2009 | author=Paul Deital; Harvey Deital; Abbey Deital | title=iPhone for Programmers
|passage=The first- GENERATION iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an
instant blockbuster success.}}
1. [en] 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.
2. A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
3. A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
4. [en] A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2014 | author=K. G. Jackson; G. B. Townsend | title=TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book
|passage=With one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component
mode, quality loss through additional GENERATIONS is not such a problem. In
this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while
re-recording onto a third GENERATION master [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2002 | author=Keith Jack; Vladimir Tsatsoulin | title=Dictionary of Video and Television Technology | page=131
|passage=Each GENERATION away from the original or master produces increased
degradation in the image quality.}}
1. [en] A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
**** Hyponyms
{{col5|en |alternate generation |Beat Generation| equivocal generation
|Facebook generation |Generation Jones |Generation X |Generation Y |Generation
Z |Greatest Generation |lost generation |me generation |microgeneration |MSN
generation |MTV generation |next generation |Nintendo generation |sandwich
generation |Silent Generation |Spock generation |spontaneous generation
|Stolen Generation }}
**** Derived terms
{{col5|en|new-generation|next-generation
|aerogeneration,autogeneration|once-in-a-generation |beat generation
|biogeneration |cogeneration |congeneration |cybergeneration
|electrogeneration |first-generation |generational |generationer |generation
gap |generationism |generation loss |generationology |generation ship
|generation time|generation effect |generationwide |greatest generation
|hydrogeneration |intergeneration |intrageneration |multigeneration
|neogeneration |next generation networking |organs of generation
|overgeneration |Peter Pan generation |photogeneration |pregeneration
|regeneration |second-generation |second-harmonic generation |snowflake
generation |strawberry generation |subgeneration |trigeneration
|undergeneration |Windrush generation |World War II generation |X generation
}}
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[origination by some process; formation]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
- Assamese: [as]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
- West Frisian: [fy]
[trans-bottom]
[act of generating or begetting; procreation]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Tagalog: [tl]
[trans-bottom]
[that which is generated or brought forth]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Russian: [ru] [progeny]
[trans-bottom]
[period of around thirty years]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Nanai: [gld]
- Norwegian:
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Somali: [so]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Walloon: [wa] [people born in] , [wa]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[single step in the succession of natural descent]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb] , [ceb] , [ceb]
- Chagatai: [chg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[race, kind, family]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Greek: [el]
- Kurdish:
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
[trans-bottom]
[geometry]
- Slovak: [sk]
[trans-bottom]
[the act of generating or begetting]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Old English: [ang] (5)
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Spanish: [es]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [page=140]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Danish
*** Etymology
From [da].
*** Noun
[en]
1. [en] [organisms or devices born or designed at the same time]
**** Declension
[en]
*** Further reading
- [R:DDO]
- [R:ODS online]
** Middle French
*** Etymology
[frm].
*** Noun
[f]
1. [en] [procreation; begetting]
2. [en] [rank or degree in genealogy]
** Swedish
[lang=sv]
*** Etymology
[sv]
*** Noun
[c]
1. a [en]
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-er]
**** Derived terms
- [sv]
- [sv]
**** Related terms
- [sv]
*** See also
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
- [saob]