celebration

n 1: an occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event

2: any festival or other celebration [syn: {festivity}]

3: the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony

with all appropriate ritual; "the celebration of marriage"

[syn: {solemnization}]

generation

An attempt to classify the degree of sophistication of

programming languages.

See {First generation language} -- {Fifth generation

language}.

(1995-06-15)