(treated as sing. or pl) a group of individuals born and living at the same time
Let us not speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all — Samuel Beckett
(treated as sing. or pl) a group of individuals sharing a usu specified status for a limited period
the next generation of students
a group of living organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor
a type or class of objects usu developed from an earlier type
a new generation of computers
the average time between the birth of parents and that of their offspring, usu considered to be about 30 years
the producing of offspring; procreation
the process of coming or bringing into being; production or origination
generation of income
generation of electricity