English Dictionary
◊ GENERATION
generation
n 1: all the people living at the same time or of approximately
the same age [syn: {coevals}, {contemporaries}]
2: group of genetically related organisms constituting a single
step in the line of descent
3: the normal time between successive generations; "they had to
wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
4: the act of propagating [syn: {multiplication}, {propagation}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ GENERATION
generation
An attempt to classify the degree of sophistication of
programming languages.
See {First generation language} -- {Fifth generation
language}.
(1995-06-15)