generation

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noun

1. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age (Freq. 8)
• Syn:
coevals, contemporaries
• Derivationally related forms:
generational
• Hypernyms:
people
• Hyponyms:
youth culture, peer group
2. group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent (Freq. 7)
• Derivationally related forms:
generational, generate
• Hypernyms:
biological group
• Hyponyms:
posterity, baby boom, baby-boom generation, generation X, gen X
3. the normal time between successive generations (Freq. 6)
- they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade
• Hypernyms:
time period, period of time, period
4. a stage of technological development or innovation
- the third generation of computers
• Derivationally related forms:
generational, generate
• Hypernyms:
phase, stage
5. a coming into being
• Syn:
genesis
• Derivationally related forms:
generate
• Hypernyms:
beginning
6. the production of heat or electricity
- dams were built for the generation of electricity
• Derivationally related forms:
generate
• Hypernyms:
production
7. the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
• Syn:
multiplication, propagation
• Derivationally related forms:
propagate (for: propagation), multiply (for: multiplication), generate
• Hypernyms:
reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life
• Hyponyms:
biogenesis, biogeny

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  multiplication, propagation, genesis, coevals, contemporaries