Definition of "generation" in Anglais

noun

1. The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.

2. The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.

3. (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.

4. 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.

   • This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
   • Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
   • All generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker

5. (now obsolete, Nigeria) Descendants, progeny; offspring.

6. 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.

7. A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.

8. (geometry) 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.

   • the generation of a line or curve

9. A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.

   • Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.

10. A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.

    • People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.

11. (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.

12. (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.