generations is a form of:
Generation
Same as: genesisnoun
- 1.
- (A bringing into being, the act of begetting, the act of producing, all persons born about the same time, family, the producing of off spring, production, a single stage in the succession of descent, the average period between the birth of successive genre) ជំនាន់ (ជំនាន់ឪពុកខ្ញុំ) generation of electricity ការបង្កើត
- 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ការបង្កើត, ជំនាន់, សន្ដតិវង្ស
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
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- Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
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- That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
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- 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.
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- Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
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- 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.
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- The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
- 1.
- age, antiquity, date, epoch, era, period, span, time
- 2.
- creation, formation, invention, procreation, production
- 1.
- childhood, infancy, youth
- 2.
- creation, formation, invention, procreation, reproduction