generation
- noun
- /ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən/
- The trend toward specialized reading has spawned a generation of consumer and special-interest magazines.
- power generation
- electricity generation
- energy generation
Last week Open AI launched image generation on day one.
- Last week Open AI launched image generation on day one.
- As we've just seen, AI image generation can be amazing.
- The first video was all about lead generation and of course conversion.
- We've had three waves of wealth generation from science and physics and technologies.
- Let's say you said to me, I'm thinking about this big box lead generation online solution, right?
- He's saying that's the highest, that's the highest function is generation is reproduction, right?
- The learning just comes from this genetic process from one generation to the next.
- But I just don't think that novelty generation is such a special.
- What kind of lead generation does regular you do?
- So did what like using sun for generation, for electricity generation?
- It's where we get the whole idea of generation, right?
Examples
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Until 1950, the large companies enjoyed a virtual monopoly over the generation of electricity.
Academic text (1999) -
Liberty is an idea, handed down from generation to generation, people to people.
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One of the real big ones is idea generation, getting your ideas.
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Last week Open AI launched image generation on day one.
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Our process here ensures that each new generation we breed is more powerful than the last.
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Most coal losses occurred in the generation market due to competition with natural gas.
Academic text (1999) -
There's a whole generation of knowledge that we lost.
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Determined to help these veterans, a new generation of scientists has revolutionized the field of prosthetics.
Academic text (2011) -
The invention of the internet marked a new generation of communication technology.
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Scientists are studying the impact of climate change on the global generation of new plant species.
Synonyms
The act of making something new
The act of producing something
The start of something new, for example a life or an era
Making goods or services on a large scale
The process of producing new animals or plants by choosing which ones mate
A way living things make babies or young
The process when people or animals have babies
The start of something and how it began
Plants or animals producing young so their number grows
The process of animals or plants making young
The idea that living things come from other living things
A process when an embryo forms and grows from a fertilized egg or single cell
To produce children or young animals
The first stage when an idea or movement begins to develop
Antonyms
Compounds
People in the United States born between 1946 and 1964 when birth rates rose after World War II
People born between the early 1960s and the late 1970s who come after the baby boomers
- NSFW
A group of American writers and artists from the 1950s who reject social rules and choose free creative lives
- Specialized
The idea that living things can appear from nonliving matter without parents is now known to be wrong
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Generation comes from the Latin word generare, which means 'to produce' or 'to give birth'. It is the same root as the common word generate, so the generation of electricity, cells, or ideas is simply the act of producing them.