Definitions for the word "generation" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
1 all the people born at about the same time. 2 single stage in a family history (three generations were present in the photograph). 3 stage in (esp. Technological) development (fourth-generation computers). 4 average time in which children are ready to take the place of their parents (about 30 years). 5 production, esp. Of electricity. 6 procreation. first- (or second-, third-, etc.) Generation (attrib.) Designating a person who emigrated to a place (or whose parents or grandparents etc. Emigrated). [latin: related to *generate]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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