generation

the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time.

the postwar generation.

the average span of years between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring, reckoned in accordance with various disciplines, as in human population studies, which typically cite a generational range as 20–35 years, and in the classification of Generations X, Y, and Z, which loosely frame periods of 15–20 years.

Her photo layout shows the hairstyle trends among young men over the past four generations.

a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc.

a group of individuals belonging to a specific category at the same time.

Chaplin belonged to the generation of silent-screen stars.

a single step in natural descent, as of human beings, animals, or plants.

a form, type, class, etc., of objects existing at the same time and having many similarities or developed from a common model or ancestor (often used in combination).

a new generation of anticancer drugs;

a third-generation phone.

the offspring of a certain parent or couple, considered as a step in natural descent.

the act or process of generating or bringing into being; production, manufacture, or procreation.

the state of being generated.

production by natural or artificial processes; evolution, as of heat or sound.

Biology.

1. one complete life cycle.

2. one of the alternate phases that complete a life cycle having more than one phase.

   the gametophyte generation.

Mathematics. the production of a geometrical figure by the motion of another figure.

Physics. one of the successive sets of nuclei produced in a chain reaction.

(in duplicating processes, as photocopying, film, etc.) the distance in duplicating steps that a copy is from the original work.

the act or process of bringing into being; production or reproduction, esp of offspring

1. a successive stage in natural descent of organisms: the time between when an organism comes into being and when it reproduces

2. the individuals produced at each stage

the normal or average time between two such generations of a species: about 35 years for humans

a phase or form in the life cycle of a plant or animal characterized by a particular type of reproduction

the gametophyte generation

all the people of approximately the same age, esp when considered as sharing certain attitudes, etc

production of electricity, heat, etc

physics a set of nuclei formed directly from a preceding set in a chain reaction

(modifier, in combination)

1. belonging to a generation specified as having been born in or as having parents, grandparents, etc, born in a given country

   a third-generation American

2. belonging to a specified stage of development in manufacture, usually implying improvement

   a second-generation computer

1. All of the offspring that are at the same stage of descent from a common ancestor.

2. The average interval of time between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring.

A form or stage in the life cycle of an organism.

See more at alternation of generations

The formation of a line or geometric figure by the movement of a point or line.