Definition of generation

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Generation (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc..

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Copulate :: Copulate (v. i.) To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.
Genital :: Genital (a.) Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs..
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
Colloid :: Colloid (n.) A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.
Abiogenous :: Abiogenous (a.) Produced by spontaneous generation.
Stem :: Stem (n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree..
Descent :: Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction..
Boil :: Boil (v.) To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils..
Sexual :: Sexual (a.) Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation..
Transmission :: Transmission (n.) The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another..
Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The union of parts which have been severed, so that they become anatomically perfect; as, the regeneration of a nerve..
Panspermist :: Panspermist (n.) A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist.
Deuterozooid :: Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids..
Parenchymous :: Parenchymous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration..
Tritozooid :: Tritozooid (n.) A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.
Genitals :: Genitals (a.) The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.
Wallerian Degeneration :: Wallerian degeneration () A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850..
Catalysis :: Catalysis (n.) Dissolution; degeneration; decay.
Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis..
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