Synonyms: multiplication, generation, propagation
Definition: the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
Similar words: facts of life, procreation, reproduction, breeding
Definition: the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
Synonyms: generation
Definition: the production of heat or electricity
Usage: dams were built for the generation of electricity
Similar words: production
Definition: (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale
Usage: he introduced more efficient methods of production
Synonyms: generation, genesis
Definition: a coming into being
Similar words: beginning
Definition: the event consisting of the start of something
Usage: the beginning of the war
Synonyms: generation
Definition: group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
Similar words: biological group
Definition: a group of plants or animals
Synonyms: contemporaries, generation, coevals
Definition: all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
Similar words: people
Definition: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Usage: old people; there were at least 200 people in the audience
Synonyms: generation
Definition: the normal time between successive generations
Usage: they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade
Similar words: time period, period, period of time
Definition: an amount of time
Usage: a time period of 30 years; hastened the period of time of his recovery; Picasso's blue period
Synonyms: generation
Definition: a stage of technological development or innovation
Usage: the third generation of computers
Definition: any distinct time period in a sequence of events
Usage: we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected