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Definition of generation

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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..

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Palingenesy :: Palingenesy (n.) A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.

Generation :: Generation (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

Strain :: Strain (n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

Tritozooid :: Tritozooid (n.) A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.

Stem :: Stem (n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

Rust :: Rust (n.) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat..

Posterity :: Posterity (n.) Succeeding generations; future times.

Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.

Increase :: Increase (v. i.) Generation.

Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation..

Progeneration :: Progeneration (n.) The act of begetting; propagation.

Necrobiosis :: Necrobiosis (n.) The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver..

Regenerative :: Regenerative (a.) Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences..

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..

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..

Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The entering into a new spiritual life; the act of becoming, or of being made, Christian; that change by which holy affectations and purposes are substituted for the opposite motives in the heart..

Sporozoa :: Sporosac (n.) An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia..

Pudendum :: Pudendum (n.) The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva..

Syngnathi :: Syngenesis (n.) A theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.