Generation
Labeled age group
Generation spans several related ideas about producing and grouping.
To generate is to bring something into existence—power, ideas, offspring—and a generation is what results.
A generation of people shares roughly the same birth years and formative experiences: the Greatest Generation, Generation X, my parents' generation.
The span is typically twenty to thirty years.
Generation also describes versions of technology or products: a new generation of smartphones, third-generation nuclear reactors.
In biology, it's one cycle of reproduction in a lineage.
1946-1964 birth cohort
- millennialsThose born 1981-1996
- Gen XPost-boomer demographic cohort
- Gen ZPost-millennial demographic cohort
- demographicStatistical population category
age group · peers · contemporaries · youth · elders · successors · predecessors · offspring
Copying or procreation
- offspringBiological descendants produced
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
- lineageDescent from progenitors
heredity · propagation · procreation · fertility · filial · parental · inheritance · descent
Making or generating something
- formationCreation or arrangement
- originationAct of bringing forth
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
- emergenceComing into existence
development · synthesis · invention · innovation · conception · fabrication · manufacture · engineering
Repeated procedural pass
- successionFollowing in order
- waveOscillating motion through medium
- eraDistinct historical period
- epochDistinct historical period
phase · span · lifetime · turnover · renewal · continuity · legacy · transition
baby boomers
1946-1964 birth cohort
- millennialsThose born 1981-1996
- Gen XPost-boomer demographic cohort
- Gen ZPost-millennial demographic cohort
demographic · age group · peers · contemporaries · youth · elders · successors · predecessors · offspring · descendants
reproduction
Copying or procreation
- offspringBiological descendants produced
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
lineage · heredity · propagation · procreation · fertility · filial · parental · inheritance · descent · bloodline
production
Making or generating something
- formationCreation or arrangement
- originationAct of bringing forth
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
emergence · development · synthesis · invention · innovation · conception · fabrication · manufacture · engineering · design
iteration
Repeated procedural pass
- successionFollowing in order
- waveOscillating motion through medium
- eraDistinct historical period
epoch · phase · span · lifetime · turnover · renewal · continuity · legacy · transition · passing
power
Energy transfer rate
- outputWhat something generates
- voltageElectrical potential difference
- turbineBlade-driven energy converter
dynamo · wattage · capacity · renewable · solar · wind · hydroelectric · nuclear · grid · plant
procedural
Following set steps
- algorithmicFollowing programmed steps
- automatedOperating without human control
- codeSymbolic communication system
random · text · image · AI · synthesis · rendering · output · dynamic · real-time · content
- film festivalsfilm festival, film festivals, premieres, screenings, film screenings
- William BlakeThe Tyger, illuminated books, Jerusalem, Milton, Orc
Generationancestry
Family line of descent
forebears · predecessors · ancestors · progenitors · antecedents
Generationdestruction
Act of completely ruining
annihilation · elimination · extinction · dissolution · degradation
Generationdeath
Cessation of life
extinction · sterility · barrenness · infertility · dying out
- generation gapAge-based cultural disconnect
- younger generationThose born later
- next generationSubsequent group following current
- new generationSuccessors to current group
- first generationEarliest in a line
- older generationThose born earlier
generating, generative, generations, generational, regenerating, regeneration, regenerative, degenerating, degeneration