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The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals. |
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Generation |
Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc. |
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Generation |
That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring. |
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Generation |
A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age. |
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Generation |
Race; kind; family; breed; stock. |
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