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generation 1. the act or process of bringing into being; production or reproduction, esp of offspring 2. a. a successive stage in natural descent of organisms: the time between when an organism comes into being and when it reproduces b. the individuals produced at each stage 3. the normal or average time between two such generations of a species: about 35 years for humans 4. a phase or form in the life cycle of a plant or animal characterized by a particular type of reproduction 5. production of electricity, heat, etc. 6. Physics a set of nuclei formed directly from a preceding set in a chain reaction
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