Generation Meaning

There are 7 meaning(s) for word Generation

Meaning 1 : a coming into being

    Synonyms : genesis
Meaning 2 : the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

    Synonyms : multiplication,  propagation
Meaning 3 : all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

    Synonyms : coevals,  contemporaries
Meaning 4 : a stage of technological development or innovation

    Example : the third generation of computers

Meaning 5 : group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

Meaning 6 : the normal time between successive generations

    Example : they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade

Meaning 7 : the production of heat or electricity

    Example : dams were built for the generation of electricity