1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things vii. 167 This is ye maner of the froward generating of Uipers.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Aa3^v As those which are ordained for generating, and propagating of Scyences. View more context for this quotation

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 263 in Justice Vindicated Every Creature of it selfe [would be] in a like power of Generating, one as much as another.

1698 E. Bellamy tr. J. Huarte Tryal Wits iii. 429 For this Reason then has Nature provided, that..with its great Heat and Dryness [the right testicle] might produce hot and dry Seed for the generating a Male.

1777 Philos. Trans. 1776 (Royal Soc.) 66 472 Thus the consequences of generating motion upon a level plane exactly correspond with the generating of motion by gravity.

?1790 J. Lowe Treat. Solar Creation & Univ. Deluge 102 It does not necessarily follow that there is no generating, producting, changing, or variety of things there, because we have no knowledge of them.

1803 W. O. Pughe Geiriadur Cynmraeg a Saesoneg: Welsh & Eng. Dict. II Ysgeniad, a generating of scales; a generating of dandriff.

1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 249 All these occurrences are perfectly dependant on a knowledge of the generating of the explosive force.

1900 Times 28 June 16/1 The generating of horse power by steam was costly.

1951 F. Whiteley Gear Manuf.: Bk. 3 vi. 42 The grinding of helical gear tooth profiles on a production basis is at present carried out..using the generating method.

1991 Sci. Amer. Sept. 112/1 All these characteristics pose challenges to the laws that govern generating, organizing, transmitting and archiving information.

1858 U.S. Patent 20,840 1/2 I am enabled to dispense with the ordinary ash pan and to occupy its place by heating surfaces, thereby greatly increasing the generating capacity of the boiler.

1967 Times 4 Mar. 11/1 By 1975..15 per cent of our total generating capacity will be nuclear.

2001 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Jan. a2/5 15,000 megawatts of generating capacity were out of service yesterday, one of the highest amounts ever.

1617 T. Cooper Myst. Witch-craft ii. i. 260 He [sc. the devil] can hinder the operations of nature, and so may be a means to hinder copulation... As corrupting naturall heate, that the generating member may not execute accordingly.

1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια sig. *6 Porotick or generating callus, by which broken bones are ferruminated and knit.

1799 R. Saumarez New Syst. Physiol. II. (ed. 2) v. 199 Some of these [arteries] supply the different pelvic viscera, the sexual and generating organs of both sexes also.

1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 132 The Momentum, or Quantity of Motion, generated by a Single Impulse, or any Momentary Force, is as the Generating Force.

1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 18 The small tube of the generating apparatus being bent straight passes down into the wash solution.

1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 156 The generating member, since it continues to grow during the branching, may form numerous lateral members.

1896 Daily News 20 Apr. 5/1 When the fires are at work, the slender tubage heaves and throbs, and through it scurries the river of steam-generating water.

1923 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 797/2 The chuff-chuff of the exhaust from the generating plant that supplied the house with electricity.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 680/2 He recognizes that neuroses are acquired in anxiety-generating situations.

1970 Ann. Rev. Physiol. 32 474 In some weakly electric fish the generating cells may be drum-shaped to tubular.

2006 Prospect Aug. 26/1 Labour would try to eliminate crime-generating social ills such as poor housing.

1671 Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2057 The Space contained by the Cycloid and Basis, is triplicate to the Generating Circle.

1733 Ladies Diary 19 Suppose the generating Hyperbola to become the Plain of a West-declining Dial, in the Latitude of 50° Νorth.

1788 C. Hutton Treat. Mensuration (ed. 2) iv. iii. 501 (heading) Of the relation between the areas and solidities of figures and the centers of gravity of their generating lines and planes.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. II. 558/1 If the diameter of the generating circle be to that of the basis as 5 to 2, the figure will be a quintuple bicuspidate epicycloid.

1854 E. de Warren tr. L. F. J. De Saulcy Journey Dead Sea II. 127 The generating arch is not then quite half a circumference.

1951 F. Whiteley Gear Manuf: Bk. 4 i. 8 The pitch angle of any bevel gear is the angle between the axis and the cone generating line.

2001 Coll. Math. Jrnl. 32 340 The pseudosphere,..whose generating curve, called the tractrix, starts at the point (0,1).

1901 Times 26 Dec. 9/4 The Aluminium Company however pay only £4.10s. per e.h.p. year for the power they rent from the Generating Company.

2001 Independent 11 Apr. i. 12/5 Pacific Gas & Electric..had been negotiating..to sell its transmission lines to the state as a way of paying off some $9bn (£6bn) in debts owed to generating companies.

1801 Monthly Rev. 36 498 Chap. 2. contains the theory of series deduced from the consideration of generating functions.

1935 E. U. Condon & G. H. Shortley Theory Atomic Spectra v. 115 The Laguerre polynomials may also be studied with the aid of their generating function.

2000 J. M. Harris et al. Combinatorics & Graph Theory ii. 102 This example illustrates the general strategy for using generating functions to solve combinatorial problems.

1882 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Oct. 5/4 The supply being in the hands of a local authority, with generating plant recently put down, consumers..would demand that the dynamo in use should be abandoned.

1935 Geogr. Jrnl. 86 498 The reservoir will..supply power to a generating plant with a capacity of 1,835,000 h.p.

2002 J. Colls Air Pollution (ed. 2) i. 22 The coal used in large-scale generating plant is ground in a ball mill to the texture of a fine powder.

1878 Times 26 Dec. 3/6 The way in which it is proposed to ‘lay on’ electricity to any given district or town is somewhat similar to the arrangements for gas. There would have to be, in the first instance, one or more electrical generating stations.

1885 Electrician 3 July 146/2 With electric tramways the energy (electricity) is conveyed from the generating station to the rails.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. V. 93/1 The capacities of some of the largest generating stations.

1998 H. W. Beaty Electric Power Distribution Syst. i. 4 This book briefly describes how electricity is produced at generating stations, transmitted to major load centers, then distributed to consumers.

1839 W. Templeton Engineer's Common-place Bk. 31 Effective generating surface of the boiler in square feet.

1847 J. Bourne Treat. Steam Engine (ed. 2) 47/2 All the particles of water that come in contact with the inside of this heating surface, or generating surface, which are converted into steam, will rise to the surface of the water.

2004 R. J. Gordon Productivity Growth i. vi. 211 James Agnew..attributed his ability to reduce plant staffing to a gradual process of modifying his 1973-vintage ‘prototype units’... The furnace had been changed, generating surface had been added to boilers, [etc].