generation.

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

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

Race, family; breed.

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.

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.

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

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, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.

the generation of a line or curve

A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members 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.

A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.

A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.