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noun
- The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
- Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc
- That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspring.
- A period of around thirty years, the average amount of time before a child takes the place of its parents.
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy, or collectively the body of people who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one time.
- Quotations
- This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
- Ye shall remain there in Babylon many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
- All generations and ages of the Christian church - Hooker
- Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
- Quotations
- Thy mother's of my ; what's she, if I be a dog? - Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, I-iii
- (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; as, the of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
- (biology) "The aggregate of the functions and phenomena which attend reproduction.
- There are four modes of generation in the animal kingdom: scissiparity or by fissiparous generation, gemmiparity or by budding, germiparity or by germs, and oviparity or by ova"
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noun generation, Generation X
- the generation of people born after baby boom that followed World War II, especially those born in the 1960s and 1970s
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noun (plural: Gesellschaften)
- (sociology) a hypothetical mode of society, made up of self-serving individuals linked by impersonal ties; as opposed to Gemeinschaft
- 1973: Seven years later, Herní¡ndez wrote a Return of Martín Fierro in which the Gaucho sells out: assimilates back into Christian society, gives up his freedom for the kind of constitutional being pushed in those days by Buenos Aires. " Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
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noun - a process of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially one characterized by uncritical acceptance or conformity to a perceived majority view
- Quotation
- :2005: "This gang-bang speaks more to journalistic than to any real moral or legal reasoning." - Jacob Weisberg, Slate Magazine
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