generation

名词 n.
/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/    /ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. countable,uncountable
    — The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations […]
  2. The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. countable,uncountable
    — So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.
  3. Race, family; breed. US,countable,dialectal,uncountable
    — Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?
  4. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit. countable,uncountable
    — This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
  5. Descendants, progeny; offspring. Nigeria,countable,obsolete,uncountable
  6. The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time. countable,uncountable
    — Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s.
  7. A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology. countable,uncountable
    — The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
  8. The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc. countable,uncountable
    — the generation of a line or curve
  9. A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another. countable,uncountable
    — Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
  10. A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions. countable,uncountable
    — People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.
  11. A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy. countable,uncountable
    — With one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component mode, quality loss through additional generations is not such a problem. In this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while re-recording onto a third generation master […]
  12. A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern. countable,uncountable
    — It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.

词形变化

generations plural

词源

Inherited from Middle English generacioun, from Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin generātiō, from generāre (“to beget, generate”). By surface analysis, generate + -ion.
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