English Dictionary

generation

/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/

noun

The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. / The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. / (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.

The generation of new ideas is essential for progress.

意味（1）

The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.

The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations […]

意味（2）

The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.

So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.

意味（3）

(now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.

Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?

意味（4）

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.

This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1

意味（5）

(obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring.

意味（6）

The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.

Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s.

意味（7）

A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.

The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.

意味（8）

(geometry) 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, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.

the generation of a line or curve

意味（9）

A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.

Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.

意味（10）

A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.

People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.

意味（11）

(television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.

With one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component mode, quality loss through additional generations is not such a problem. In this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while re-recording onto a third generation master […]