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generation

gen.er.a.tion \.jen-*-'ra--sh*n\ n 1a: a body of living beings constituting 
   a single step in the line of desce nt from an ancestor 1b: a group of 
   individuals born and living contemporaneously  1c: a group of individuals 
   having contemporaneously a status (as that of st udents in a school) which 
   each one holds only for a limited period 1d: a type or class of objects 
   developed from an earlier type  2: the average span of time between the 
   birth of parents and that of their  offspring 3a: the act or process of 
   producing offspring : PROCREATION  3b: origination by a mathematical, 
   chemical, or other process : PRODUC TION; specif : formation of a 
   geometrical figure by motion of another 3c: the process of coming into 
   being