English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of generation

generation

/noun/ पीढ़ी; संतति; जनरेशन; उत्पादन; जनन; प्रजनन;

Synonym descent; offspring; Generation; capital goods; formatio; autoplasty;

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English Dictionary:

1. Generation

[n.]

- The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
- Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
- That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
- 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.
- Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
- 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.
- The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.