Definition of generation

Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of generation is as below...

Generation (n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals..

Lern More About Generation

Unregeneration :: Unregeneration (n.) Unregeneracy.
Descent :: Descent (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
Ovulist :: Ovulist (n.) A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist..
Colliquament :: Colliquament (n.) The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The act of regenerating, or the state of being regenerated..
Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) A bud produced in generation by gemmation.
Abiogenesis :: Abiogenesis (n.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis..
Engendrure :: Engendrure (n.) The act of generation.
Anthropogeny :: Anthropogeny (n.) The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man..
Genitals :: Genitals (a.) The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.
Seed :: Seed (n.) Race; generation; birth.
Pathogeny :: Pathogeny (n.) The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled..
Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.
Vegetal :: Vegetal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals..
Doliolum :: Doliolum (n.) A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations..
Pathogeny :: Pathogeny (n.) That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.
Synergist :: Synergism (n.) The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a cooperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man..
Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration..
Autogenesis :: Autogenesis (n.) Spontaneous generation.
Random Fonts
Most Popular

close
Privacy Policy   GDPR Policy   Terms & Conditions   Contact Us