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engendering
The act by which something is engendered.
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  1. The act by which something is engendered.
formation
The act or process of forming something or of taking form.
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  1. The act or process of forming something or of taking form.
  2. A forming or being formed
  3. (Geology) A primary unit in the mapping of rock strata, consisting of a set of contemporaneous rocks having the same characteristics and origin.
creation
The divine act by which, according to various religious and philosophical traditions, the world was brought into existence.
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  1. The divine act by which, according to various religious and philosophical traditions, the world was brought into existence.
  2. The fact or state of having been created.
  3. A creating or being created
propagation
The process of spreading to a larger area or greater number; dissemination.
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  1. The process of spreading to a larger area or greater number; dissemination.
  2. (Physics) The act or process of propagating, especially the process by which a disturbance, such as the motion of electromagnetic or sound waves, is transmitted through a medium such as air or water.
  3. Reproduction or multiplication, as of a plant or animal
reproduction
The act of making copies.
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  1. The act of making copies.
  2. The process by which cells and organisms produce other cells and organisms of the same kind. &diamf3; The reproduction of organisms by the union of male and female reproductive cells (gametes) is called sexual reproduction. Many unicellular and most multicellular organisms reproduce sexually. &diamf3; Reproduction in which offspring are produced by a single parent, without the union of reproductive cells, is called asexual reproduction. The fission (splitting) of bacterial cells and the cells of multicellular organisms by mitosis is a form of asexual reproduction, as is the budding of yeast cells and the generation of clones by runners in plants. Many plants and fungi are capable of reproducing both sexually and asexually, as are some animals, such as sponges and aphids.
  3. Something reproduced, especially in the faithfulness of its resemblance to the form and elements of the original:
breeding
Upbringing or education, especially in proper social behavior.
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  1. Upbringing or education, especially in proper social behavior.
  2. One's line of descent; ancestry:
  3. The propagation of animals or plants:
bearing
Relevant relationship or interconnection:
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  1. Relevant relationship or interconnection:
  2. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
  3. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
age
(Informal) An extended period of time:
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  1. (Informal) An extended period of time:
  2. The state of being old; old age:
  3. A period of time marked by a distinctive characteristic, achievement, or figure:
crop
Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group:
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  1. Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group:
  2. A stick with a handle at one end and a thong or tab at the other, used to direct a horse in horseback riding
  3. The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place:
rank
A social division or class; stratum of society
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  1. A social division or class; stratum of society
  2. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
  3. A relative position, usually in a scale classifying persons or things; grade; degree
peers
Plural form of peer
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  1. Plural form of peer
coevals
Plural form of coeval
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  1. Plural form of coeval
peer group
All those people of about the same age, status, etc. in a society, regarded as forming a sociological group with a homogeneous system of values
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  1. All those people of about the same age, status, etc. in a society, regarded as forming a sociological group with a homogeneous system of values
age-group
A group of people who are the same age or in the same range of ages.
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  1. A group of people who are the same age or in the same range of ages.
  2. A demographic grouping based on age, a generation.
span
A unit of linear measure equal to nine inches: originally based on the distance between the tips of a man's extended thumb and little finger
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  1. A unit of linear measure equal to nine inches: originally based on the distance between the tips of a man's extended thumb and little finger
  2. The full amount or extent between any two limits
  3. A period of time:
period
The number of digits that repeat in a repeating decimal. For example,17 = 0.142857142857 ... has a six-digit period.
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  1. The number of digits that repeat in a repeating decimal. For example,17 = 0.142857142857 ... has a six-digit period.
  2. An interval of time characterized by the prevalence of a specified culture, ideology, or technology:
  3. An interval regarded as a distinct evolutionary or developmental phase:
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  • This generation has no idea.

  • "My father is fifth generation," she mused.

  • I am third generation PMF, like Brady.

  • Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

  • The independent plant which is generally attached to the soil by hair-like structures is the sexual generation, the sporophyte is a stalked or sessile capsule which remains always attached to the gametophyte from which it derives the whole or part of its nourishment.

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