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How to pronounce “generation

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Practice the English pronunciation of generation with real speech in context.
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Real speech example
How Millenial Youth Are Taking Over America & Changing the Worldgeneration we both those recently
Definition summary
The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. [from 14th c.]

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How to pronounce generation

How Millenial Youth Are Taking Over America & Changing the World

generation we both those recently

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A Deep Dive Into “generation

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. [from 14th c.]
  • The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. [from 14th c.]
  • (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed. [from 14th c.]
  • 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. [from 14th c.]
  • (now obsolete, Nigeria) Descendants, progeny; offspring. [15th–19th c.]
  • 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. [from 17th c.]
  • A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology. [from 20th c.]
  • (geometry) 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.
  • A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
  • A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
  • (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
  • (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.

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