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generation   (TTS Sound)

The noun generation has 7 senses

• coevals, contemporaries, generation -- (all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age)


• generation -- (group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent)


• generation -- (the normal time between successive generations; "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade")


• generation -- (a stage of technological development or innovation; "the third generation of computers")


• genesis, generation -- (a coming into being)


• generation -- (the production of heat or electricity; "dams were built for the generation of electricity")


• generation, multiplication, propagation -- (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)