Dutch Meaning of generation

Generatie

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Definitions and Meaning of generation in English

Wordnet

generation (n)

all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

the normal time between successive generations

a stage of technological development or innovation

a coming into being

the production of heat or electricity

the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

Webster

generation (n.)

The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.

That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

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.

Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

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; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.

The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.

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Generatie

all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age, group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descen

creatie,ontwikkeling,productie,constructie,Vorming,Genesis,innovatie,uitvinding,ontstaan,ontstaan

No antonyms found.

generating => genererend, generated => gegenereerd, generate => genereren, generant => genereus, generalty => over het algemeen,