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generation1 a: a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor b: a group of individuals born and living contemporaneously c: a group of individuals having contemporaneously a status (as that of students in a school) which each one holds only for a limited period d: a type or class of objects usually developed from an earlier type <first of the…new generation of powerful supersonic fighters
— Kenneth Koyen>2 a: the action or process of producing offspring : procreation b: the process of coming or bringing into being <generation of income> c: origination by a generating process : production
; especially : formation of a geometric figure by motion of another3: the average span of time between the birth of parents and that of their offspring
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