Generate :: 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 :: Generate (v. t.) To cause to be; to bring into life.
Generate :: Generate (v. t.) To originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause..
Generate :: Generate (v. t.) To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order..
Generation :: Generation (n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals..
Generation :: Generation (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc..
Generation :: Generation (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
Generation :: 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 :: 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 :: Generation (n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
Generative :: Generative (a.) Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing..
Generator :: Generator (n.) One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces..
Generator :: 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 :: 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.
Generatrix :: Generatrix (n.) That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent..