generation

Noun

• the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

• the production of heat or electricity
  • dams were built for the generation of electricity
    

• a coming into being

• a stage of technological development or innovation
  • the third generation of computers
    

• the normal time between successive generations
  • they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade
    

• group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

• all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  multiplication , propagation , genesis , coevals , contemporaries