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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Generation :: Generation (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
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..
Geneagenesis :: Geneagenesis (n.) Alternate generation. See under Generation.
Degenerationist :: Degenerationist (n.) A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state..
Pudenda :: Pudenda (n. pl.) The external organs of generation.
Pudic :: Pudic (a.) Of or pertaining to the external organs of generation.
Strain :: Strain (n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
Encasement :: Encasement (n.) An old theory of generation similar to embo/tement. See Ovulist.
Progeneration :: Progeneration (n.) The act of begetting; propagation.
Rising :: Rising (a.) Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation..
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration..
Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc., which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the body, or the regeneration of the contractile substance of muscle..
Digestion :: Digestion (n.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
Anthropogeny :: Anthropogeny (n.) The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man..
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..
Parenchymous :: Parenchymous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration..
Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis..
Stem :: Stem (n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) Alternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; -- in distinction from heterogamy.
Uroglaucin :: Uroglaucin (n.) A body identical with indigo blue, occasionally found in the urine in degeneration of the kidneys. It is readily formed by oxidation or decomposition of indican..
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