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What (who) is generation - definition

ALL OF THE PEOPLE BORN AND LIVING AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME, REGARDED COLLECTIVELY
Twice-removed; Thrice-removed; List of generations; List of Generations; Length Of Generation; Generational cohort; Generational cohorts; List of generations, 1900-present; List of cultural generations, 1900 to present; Length of Generation; Cultural Generation; Familial generation; Human generation; List of named generations; Generationology
  • ''Geração à Rasca'' demonstration in Lisbon, 2011
  • Four generations of one family: a baby boy, his mother, his maternal grandmother, and his maternal great-grandmother. (2008)
  • Armenian]] family—a child with her mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. (photograph dated from book published in 1901)
  • Eastern Orthodox priest family]] from [[Jerusalem]], circa 1893

Generation         
·noun Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
II. Generation ·noun That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
III. Generation ·noun The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
IV. Generation ·noun The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
V. Generation ·noun Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, ·etc.
VI. Generation ·noun 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.
VII. Generation ·noun 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.
generation         
¦ noun
1. all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.
the average period in which children grow up and have children of their own (usually reckoned as about thirty years).
2. a set of members of a family regarded as a single step or stage in descent.
a group of people of similar age involved in a particular activity: a new generation of actors and directors.
3. the action of producing or generating.
the propagation of living organisms; procreation.
4. a single stage in the development of a product.
Derivatives
generational adjective
generation         
An attempt to classify the degree of sophistication of programming languages. See First generation language -- {Fifth generation language}. (1995-06-15)

Wikipedia

Generation

A generation refers to all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively. It can also be described as, "the average period, generally considered to be about 20–⁠30 years, during which children are born and grow up, become adults, and begin to have children." In kinship terminology, it is a structural term designating the parent-child relationship. It is known as biogenesis, reproduction, or procreation in the biological sciences.

Generation is also often used synonymously with birth/age cohort in demographics, marketing, and social science; under this formulation it means "people within a delineated population who experience the same significant events within a given period of time." Generations in this sense of birth cohort, also known as "social generations", are widely used in popular culture, and have been the basis for sociological analysis. Serious analysis of generations began in the nineteenth century, emerging from an increasing awareness of the possibility of permanent social change and the idea of youthful rebellion against the established social order. Some analysts believe that a generation is one of the fundamental social categories in a society, while others view its importance as being overshadowed by other factors including class, gender, race, and education, among others.

Examples of use of generation
1. It suggests a tradition passed down from generation to generation.
2. First came Generation X, then Generation Y, and now?
3. The Korean ancestors worshiped the mountain generation to generation.
4. Bush, "you‘re seeing him with his generation, the older generation.
5. "The Stonewall Generation is an activist generation," said Amber Hollibaugh.