Generate(v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
Generate(v. t.) To cause to be; to bring into life.
Generate(v. t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.
Generate(v. t.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
Generated(imp. & p. p.) of Generate
Generating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Generate
Generation(n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
Generation(n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
Generation(n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
Generation(n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.
Generation(n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
Generation(n.) 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; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
Generation(n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
Generative(a.) Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
Generator(n.) One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
Generator(n.) An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc.
Generator(n.) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.
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