Definition of Generation

Generation The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals. Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc. That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age. Race; kind; family; breed; stock. 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 generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc. The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction. Related Definitions: Accordance, Act, Age, Aggregate, Also, An, Ancestor, And, Another, Any, Are, As, Assumed, At, Attend, Average, Be, Begetting, Body, Breed, Brought, By, Century, Chemical, Child, Curve, Descent, Family, Father, Formation, Forth, From, Gases, Genealogical, Genealogy, Generated, Generating, Generation, Geometrical, Hence, In, Is, Kind, Law, Lifetime, Line, Living, Magnitude, Man, Mass, Mathematical, Motion, Natural, Of, One, Or, Ordinary, Origination, Period, Point, Process, Procreation, Production, Progeny, Race, Rank, Remove, Reproduction, Same, Semicircle, Single, Solid, Some, Sphere, Stage, Step, Stock, Succeeded, Succession, Surface, That, The, Third, Those, Time, To, Vital, Which, Who, With

Generation Quotations We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. Thomas Jefferson The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. Abraham Lincoln Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. Ronald Reagan Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known. Ronald Reagan Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. John F. Kennedy We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. John F. Kennedy We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship. John Lennon Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. Bill Cosby

Generation Translations generation in Afrikaans is geslag, generasie generation in Dutch is generatie, geslacht generation in Finnish is sukupolvi generation in German is Takterzeugung, Erzeugung generation in Italian is generazione generation in Norwegian is utvikling, generasjon, slektsledd