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Definition of generation

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Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age..

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Descent :: Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction..

Histolytic :: Histolytic (a.) Of or pertaining to histolysis, or the degeneration of tissues..

Oviparity :: Oviparity (n.) Generation by means of ova. See Generation.

Deuterozooid :: Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids..

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole..

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..

Tritozooid :: Tritozooid (n.) A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.

Geniture :: Geniture (n.) Generation; procreation; birth.

Age :: Age (n.) The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation..

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

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration..

Colliquament :: Colliquament (n.) The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.

Genital :: Genital (a.) Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs..

Multiplication :: Multiplication (n.) The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation..

Amphigenesis :: Amphigenesis (n.) Sexual generation; amphigony.

Propagation :: Propagation (n.) The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The thing degenerated.

Homogenesis :: Homogenesis (n.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis..

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration..

Reproduce :: Reproduce (v. t.) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation..