So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / Ingeneration seek to quench their inward fire.
1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…], London:[…]William Rawley[…];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee[…],→OCLC:
Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.
According to that CabaliſticallDogma: IfAbram had not had this Letter [i.e.,ה(he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power ofgeneration:[…] So that beingſterill before, he received the power ofgeneration from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable untoBinah.
Thy Mothers of mygeneration: what's she, if I be a Dogge?
A single step or stage in thesuccession of natural descent; arank ordegree ingenealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.[from 14th c.]
This is the book of thegenerations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, sevengenerations - Baruch 6:3
Allgenerations and ages of the Christian church -Richard Hooker
The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.[from 17th c.]
2008, Edgar Thorpe,Objective English:
Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, twogenerations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s.
A set stage in the development ofcomputing or of a specifictechnology.[from 20th c.]
2009, Paul Deital, Harvey Deital, Abbey Deital,iPhone for Programmers:
The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
(geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
thegeneration of a line or curve
A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas thegeneration known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
People sometimes dispute whichgeneration of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.
2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend,TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book:
With one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component mode, quality loss through additionalgenerations is not such a problem. In this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while re-recording onto a thirdgeneration master[…]
2002, Keith Jack, Vladimir Tsatsoulin,Dictionary of Video and Television Technology, page131:
Eachgeneration away from the original or master produces increased degradation in the image quality.
1989 November 20, Dean Hickerson, “Life: glider gun origin”, incomp.theory.cell-automata[1] (Usenet):
It runs for 17331generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.
1999 June 15, hexatron, “A new hexagonal CA with a new glider”, incomp.theory.cell-automata[2] (Usenet):
The glider is fast--it moves 2 cells every 3generations. There is also a spinning thing (sixty degrees every 21generations)
2008 June 25, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, incomp.theory.cell-automata[3] (Usenet):
In B37/S23, it goes symmetrical after 10 ticks, and produces a familiar pair of B-heptominoes after 23 ticks (the nextgeneration after this can be found in the rotor of a standard B3/S23 p46 oscillator):
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Translations to be checked: "the act of generating or begetting"
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