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generation
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin gener?ti?, from gener?re, present active infinitive of gener? (“to beget, generate”). Compare generate.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d???n???e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: gen?er?a?tion
Noun
generation (countable and uncountable, plural generations)
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. [from 14th c.]
- 1832, Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, II:
- The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations.
- 1832, Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, II:
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. [from 14th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum:
- Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, First Folio 1623, I.3:
- Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, First Folio 1623, I.3:
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit. [from 14th c.]
- 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
- (obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring. [15th-19th c.]
- The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time. [from 17th c.]
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology. [from 20th c.]
- 2009, Paul Deital, Harvey Deital and Abbey Deital, iPhone for Programmers:
- The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
- 2009, Paul Deital, Harvey Deital and Abbey Deital, iPhone for Programmers:
- (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, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
- the generation of a line or curve
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.
- (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.
- 2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book
- With one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component mode, quality loss through additional generations is not such a problem. In this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while re-recording onto a third generation master […]
- 2002, Keith Jack, Vladimir Tsatsoulin, Dictionary of Video and Television Technology (page 131)
- Each generation away from the original or master produces increased degradation in the image quality.
- 2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- first-generation
- generationer
- second-generation
- generation gap
- generation loss
Related terms
- generate
Translations
Further reading
- generation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- generation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- "generation" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 140.
Anagrams
- renegation
Danish
Noun
generation c (singular definite generationen, plural indefinite generationer)
- generation (organisms or devices born or designed at the same time)
Declension
Further reading
- “generation” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “generation” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin generatio.
Noun
generation f (plural generations)
- generation (procreation; begetting)
- generation (rank or degree in genealogy)
Swedish
Noun
generation c
- a generation
Declension
Related terms
- generera
- generationsväxling
- ungdomsgeneration
References
- generation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- generation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
generation From the web:
- what generation am i
- what generation is after gen z
- what generation is 2000
- what generation is 2020
- what generation is my ipad
- what generation is the newest ipad
- what generation is 1999
- what generation is 1998
epoch
English
Alternative forms
- epocha [17th–19th c.]
Etymology
From Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ????? (epokh?, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ????? (epékh?, “I hold in, check”), from ???- (epi-, “upon”) + ??? (ékh?, “I have, hold”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?i?p?k/, /??p?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /??p.?k/, /??p??k/, /?i?p?k/, /?e??p?k/
Noun
epoch (plural epochs)
- A particular period of history, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
- Synonyms: age, (only in general usage) era
- A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
- (astronomy) A precise instant of time that is used as a point of reference.
- (computing) A precise instant of time that is used as a point of reference (e.g., January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC).
- (computing) One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm; generation.
- (geology) A unit of geologic time subdividing a period into smaller parts.
Related terms
- epochal
- epoche, epoché
- epochless
Translations
Verb
epoch (third-person singular simple present epochs, present participle epoching, simple past and past participle epoched)
- (sciences, transitive) To divide (data) into segments by time period.
Further reading
- epoch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- epoch in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- epoch at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Poche, chope, poché
epoch From the web:
- what epoch are we in
- what epoch do we live in
- what epoch are we currently in
- what epoch did humans appear
- what epoch are we in right now
- what epoch was the last ice age
- what epoch was the ice age
- what epoch are we in now
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