Noun

(en noun)

The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.

* 1832 , (Charles Lyell), Principles of Geology , II:

The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations.

The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:

So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.

* 1626 , (Francis Bacon), Sylva Sylvarum :

Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.

* c. 1605 , (William Shakespeare), Timon of Athens , First Folio 1623, I.3:

Thy Mothers of my generation : what's she, if I be a Dogge?

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.

This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1

Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3

All generations and ages of the Christian church -

(obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring.

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.

* 2008 , Edgar Thorpe, Objective English :

Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s.

A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.

* 2009 , Paul Deital, Harvey Deital and Abbey Deital, iPhone for Programmers :

The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.

(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; 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.

A specific age range in which each person in that range can relate culturally to one another.

Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.

A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.

People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.

Noun

(en noun)

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.

An opening allowing passage or entrance.

An opening that implies a breach or defect.

A vacant space or time.

A hiatus.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}

A mountain or hill pass.

(label) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).

(label) The regions between the outfielders.

The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.

* 2008 , Eileen Willis, Louise Reynolds, Helen Keleher, Understanding the Australian Health Care System , page 5,

Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap , and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Andrew Benson, work=BBC Sport

, title= Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , passage=That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1995, author=Robert E. Knoll, chapter=A University on the Defensive 1920-1927

, title= Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska, page=70 , passage=When Charles Bessey suddenly died in 1916 at age seventy, he left a gap that was impossible to fill; and though his protégé. R. J. Pool, was a man of intelligence and character, he did not have Bessey’s authority.}}

(label) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.