generation (noun)
1: all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age [syn: coevals, contemporaries]
2: group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
3: the normal time between successive generations; "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
4: a stage of technological development or innovation; "the third generation of computers"
5: a coming into being [syn: genesis]
6: the production of heat or electricity; "dams were built for the generation of electricity"
7: the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production [syn: multiplication, propagation]