A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit. [from 14th c.]
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.]
A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology. [from 20th c.]
(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.
A specific age range in which each person in that range can relate culturally to one another.
A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
(music) The principalsound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamentalnote or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
(mathematics) An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relators.
(geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
“Then the combustion products are released through the turbine to produce mechanical work, which is then converted to electricity using an electrical generator.”
“Ephraim is considered the generator of modern German literature of the 18th century.”
“However, it would be possible to install a standby generator, which would ensure power in the event of a failure of the mains supply.”
“Moreover, the variation of the surface roughness depending on the length mechanized and the generatrices, it does not present significant variations.”
