Definizione monolingua

generation

generation (plural generations)

1. The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
2. Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc
3. That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspring.
4. A period of around thirty years, the average amount of time before a child takes the place of its parents.
5. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy, or collectively the body of people who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one time.

   This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1

   Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3

   All generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker

6. Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

   Thy mothers of my generation; whats she, if I be a dog? - Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, I-iii

7. (geometry) 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.
8. (biology) The aggregate of the functions and phenomena which attend reproduction.

   ""There are four modes of generation in the animal kingdom: scissiparity or by fissiparous generation, gemmiparity or by budding, germiparity or by germs, and oviparity or by ova""

Definizione dizionario generation

	generazione
	La produzione o formazione di qualcosa.
	The production or creation of something.
	All of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.
	A concept used to distinguish stored versions of a set of files. The oldest is called the grandfather, the next oldest is the father, and the newest is the son.

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produzione

Altri significati:

The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

period of around thirty years

race, kind, family

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy, or collectively the body of people who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one time.

origination by some process

act of generating or begetting

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent

single step in the succession of natural descent

A period of around thirty years, the average amount of time before a child takes the place of its parents.

Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspring.

(geometry) 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.

(biology) The aggregate of the functions and phenomena which attend reproduction.

Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc

generation (e.g. power)