generations 的定义
- the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- the average span of years between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring, reckoned in accordance with various disciplines, as in human population studies, which typically cite a generational range as 20–35 years, and in the classification of Generations X, Y, and Z, which loosely frame periods of 15–20 years: Her photo layout shows the hairstyle trends among young men over the past four generations.
- a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc.Compare Beat Generation, Lost Generation.
- a group of individuals belonging to a specific category at the same time: Chaplin belonged to the generation of silent-screen stars.
- a single step in natural descent, as of human beings, animals, or plants.
- a form, type, class, etc., of objects existing at the same time and having many similarities or developed from a common model or ancestor: a new generation of anticancer drugs;a third-generation phone.
- the offspring of a certain parent or couple, considered as a step in natural descent.
- the act or process of generating or bringing into being; production, manufacture, or procreation.
- the state of being generated.
- production by natural or artificial processes; evolution, as of heat or sound.
- Biology. one complete life cycle.one of the alternate phases that complete a life cycle having more than one phase: the gametophyte generation.
- Mathematics. the production of a geometrical figure by the motion of another figure.
- Physics. one of the successive sets of nuclei produced in a chain reaction.
- the distance in duplicating steps that a copy is from the original work.
generations 近义词
creation, production
generations 的近义词 13 个
- bearing
- breeding
- formation
- genesis
- origination
- procreation
- propagation
- reproduction
- begetting
- bringing forth
- engenderment
- multiplying
- spawning
generations 的反义词 1 个
era; age group
更多generations例句
- Keep in mind that Gen Z is a tech-savvy audience that’s unlike other generations.
- The generation or so after the passage of the Voting Rights, when the Electoral College never made a practical difference in presidential elections, was an exception rather than the rule.
- Insider Spotlight sponsors can get lead generation in the form of emails, a recap article on Business Insider’s site, onsite media, as well as social promotion and promotional email blasts.
- While the new iPhones are expected soon, Apple is proceeding with a new generation of its mobile operating software, iOS 14, due out Wednesday.
- This is the lamp that nearly any person of any generation would like.
- I watched SNL—the Eddie Murphy generation—and also SCTV with Rick Moranis.
- A place that has multiplied success for generation after generation of its children.
- This was a guy from the hip-hop generation and with a perspective that was inextricably linked to that generation.
- Or will we simply see more senseless bloodshed and another generation of Palestinians defer their dreams of a homeland?
- Changing public opinion, of course, will be the work of a generation or maybe two, but kudos to Stewart for getting it started.
- The memory of him shall not depart away, and his name shall be in request from generation to generation.
- Their bodies are buried in peace, and their name liveth unto generation and generation.
- "All right, Pater," you would say, and leave the matter in the hands of the elder generation.
- For the adult generation of to-day many things are no longer possible.
- She thought that the elder members of the family could discuss life more freely unhampered by the younger generation.