| 单词 | generation |
| 释义 | generation —generational, adj. —generationally, adv. /jen'euh ray"sheuhn/, n. 1. the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation. 2. the term of years, roughly 30 among human beings, accepted as the average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring. 3. a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc. Cf. Beat Generation, Lost Generation. 4. a group of individuals belonging to a specific category at the same time: Chaplin belonged to the generation of silent-screen stars. 5. a single step in natural descent, as of human beings, animals, or plants. 6. a form, type, class, etc., of objects existing at the same time and having many similarities or developed from a common model or ancestor: a new generation of computers. 7. the offspring of a certain parent or couple, considered as a step in natural descent. 8. the act or process of generating; procreation. 9. the state of being generated. 10. production by natural or artificial processes; evolution, as of heat or sound. 11. Biol. a. one complete life cycle. b. one of the alternate phases that complete a life cycle having more than one phase: the gametophyte generation. 12. Math. the production of a geometrical figure by the motion of another figure. 13. Physics. one of the successive sets of nuclei produced in a chain reaction. 14. (in duplicating processes, as photocopying, film, etc.) the distance in duplicating steps that a copy is from the original work. [1250-1300; ME generacioun < MF < L generation- (s. of generatio). See GENERATE, -ION] |
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