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generation
generation is a 10-letter English word with 14 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 14 senses
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- 1noun
The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
- 2noun
Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
- 3noun
That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
- 8noun
the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
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- 9noun
the production of heat or electricity
"dams were built for the generation of electricity"
- 10noun
a coming into being
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- 11noun
group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
- 12noun
all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
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- 13noun
the normal time between successive generations
"they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
- 14noun
a stage of technological development or innovation
"the third generation of computers"
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