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Meaning of generation

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  generation
      n 1: all the people living at the same time or of approximately
           the same age [syn: {coevals}, {contemporaries},
           {generation}]
      2: group of genetically related organisms constituting a single
         step in the line of descent
      3: the normal time between successive generations; "they had to
         wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
      4: a stage of technological development or innovation; "the
         third generation of computers"
      5: a coming into being [syn: {genesis}, {generation}]
      6: the production of heat or electricity; "dams were built for
         the generation of electricity"
      7: the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such
         production [syn: {generation}, {multiplication},
         {propagation}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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