FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

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

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

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

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

n 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.

n Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

n (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.

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