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generation

noun
  1. the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
    multiplicationpropagation
  2. the production of heat or electricity
    “dams were built for the generation of electricity”
  3. a coming into being
    genesis
  4. group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
  5. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
    coevalscontemporaries
  6. the normal time between successive generations
    “they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade”
  7. a stage of technological development or innovation
    “the third generation of computers”