Definition of generation

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Generation (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

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Transmission :: Transmission (n.) The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another..
Increase :: Increase (v. i.) Generation.
Gasogen :: Gasogen (n.) An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid..
Stereogram :: Stereoelectric (a.) Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of solid bodies alone; as, a stereoelectric current is one obtained by means of solids, without any liquid..
Ingeneration :: Ingeneration (n.) Act of ingenerating.
Generation :: Generation (n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
Digenea :: Digenea (n. pl.) A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents..
Zooid :: Zooid (n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation..
Engendrure :: Engendrure (n.) The act of generation.
Parthenogenesis :: Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis..
Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The thing degenerated.
Plasmid :: Plasmid (n.) A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of the cell. The cells thus altered may produ
Archegony :: Archegony (n.) Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis.
Genesis :: Genesis (n.) Same as Generation.
Histolytic :: Histolytic (a.) Of or pertaining to histolysis, or the degeneration of tissues..
Pudic :: Pudic (a.) Of or pertaining to the external organs of generation.
Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
Generation :: Generation (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
Purulency :: Purulency (n.) The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself..
Geneagenesis :: Geneagenesis (n.) Alternate generation. See under Generation.
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