all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

[ Syn: coevals , contemporaries ]

group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

the normal time between successive generations; they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade'

a stage of technological development or innovation; the third generation of computers'

a coming into being

[ Syn: genesis ]

the production of heat or electricity; dams were built for the generation of electricity'

the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

[ Syn: multiplication , propagation ]