Noun
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the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
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the production of heat or electricity
"dams were built for the generation of electricity"
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a coming into being
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a stage of technological development or innovation
"the third generation of computers"
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the normal time between successive generations
"they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
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group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
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all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age