1. All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
   "The millennial generation grew up with the internet";
   - coevals, contemporaries
    
2. Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
   "The study traced genetic markers across three generations of the family"
    
3. The normal time between successive generations
   "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
    
4. The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
   "The rabbits' rapid generation of offspring was overwhelming";
   - multiplication, propagation
    
5. A coming into being
   "The generation of the universe remains a topic of scientific inquiry";
   - genesis
    
6. A stage of technological development or innovation
   "the third generation of computers"
    
7. The production of heat or electricity
   "dams were built for the generation of electricity"

Derived forms: generations

Type of: beginning, biological group, facts of life, people, period, period of time, phase, procreation, production, reproduction, stage, time period, time span

Encyclopedia: Generation