generation
英 [dʒenə'reɪʃ(ə)n]
美['dʒɛnə'reʃən]
- n. 一代；产生；一代人；生殖
英英释意
- 1. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
- 2. group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
- 3. the normal time between successive generations;
- "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
- 4. a stage of technological development or innovation;
- "the third generation of computers"
- 5. a coming into being
- 6. the production of heat or electricity;
- "dams were built for the generation of electricity"
- 7. the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production