Type and usage of generation from BoostVocab

generation

/,dʒɛnə'reɪʃən/

noun
a coming into being
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genesis

type of:
beginning
noun
the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
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multiplication propagation

type of:
facts of life reproduction breeding procreation
noun
all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
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coevals contemporaries

type of:
people
noun
a stage of technological development or innovation
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"the third generation of computers"

type of:
phase stage
noun
group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
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type of:
biological group
noun
the normal time between successive generations
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"they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"

type of:
period of time period time period
noun
the production of heat or electricity
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"dams were built for the generation of electricity"

type of:
production

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