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Eneration

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(1):

(n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.

(2):

(n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.

(3):

(n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

(4):

(n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

(5):

(n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.

(6):

(n.) 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; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.

(7):

(n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Eneration'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​e/eneration.html. 1828.
 
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