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generation
(redirected from spontaneous generation)

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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

generation - An attempt to classify the degree of sophistication of programming languages.

See First generation language -- Fifth generation language.


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During a period when scientists believed in spontaneous generation, Merian became fascinated with the idea of metamorphosis and authored books on caterpillars.
Actually, people at that time thought this was the result of so-called spontaneous generation, that dung miraculously gave birth to plants.
Over the last two years there seems to have been a spontaneous generation of POs across the country, and the result is a growing body of knowledge about what it takes under a variety of circumstances to build POs.
 
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