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generation

generation

115 3.1
A stage in technology development with new features and better design
  • noun
  • /ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən/
: generación
  • We have a whole new generation.
  • next generation
  • new generation
  • third generation

And this was the first generation of NVIDIA cards to support SLI.

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Examples

  • I'm also very curious about this new generation of short throw projectors.

  • I think I will need to ask this young generation their understanding of love.

  • And seeing a step change in one generation is extremely rare.

  • Extremely simple rules as to how the next generation gets formed.

  • You know, this is the cool generation that we're now a part of.

  • And most games of this generation were very simple.

    Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (2014)

  • This is the next generation of stealth technology.

    I Spy (2002)

  • Thus, new tests are needed for the evaluation of the newest generation of hearing aids.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The current generation, they can do things like take off and land on their own; fly mission way points on their own; make sense of what they're seeing on their own.

    Tiffany McKinley: Sailor (2014)

  • The introduction of this smartphone marks a significant advancement for the current generation of mobile technology.

Compounds

Generation X
9 3.6

People born between the early 1960s and the late 1970s who come after the baby boomers

baby-boom generation
  • US
6 3.5

People in the United States born between 1946 and 1964 when birth rates rose after World War II

generation gap
6 3.4

A difference in opinions and values between young people and their parents

wind generation
  • Specialized
3 3.8

Electricity made from wind using turbines

Beat Generation
  • NSFW
2 8.0

A group of American writers and artists from the 1950s who reject social rules and choose free creative lives

spontaneous generation
  • Specialized
1 9.8

The idea that living things can appear from nonliving matter without parents is now known to be wrong

How Advanced

version
∞ 2.0
generation
115 3.1
to prototype
6 4.2
premodel
  • Specialized
6.8

Surface Forms

generation singular
generations plural

Morphology

generation = generate (semi-transparent) = generate + ion

The technology/version sense (e.g., 'third generation') is a specialized metaphorical extension of 'generation' as a produced cohort or stage, so it is partially predictable but somewhat conventionalized.

Etymology

Generation comes from the Latin generare, which means 'to produce' or 'bring into being'. So a new generation of phones or cars is a newly produced 'kind' of device with new features.