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the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production the production of heat or electricity; "dams were built for the generation of electricity" group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent the normal time between successive generations; "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade" a stage of technological development or innovation; "the third generation of computers" a coming into being all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age |
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