Responsibility to future generations appears at first to be an uncomplicated concept, and its widespread appearance in public pronouncements and political rhetoric testifies to its apparently widespread endorsement by public opinion. Moreover, advances...

According to demographers, a generation is an age-cohort of people born, living, and dying within a few years of each other. Human generations are roughly defined categories, and the demarcations are not as distinct as they are in many other species....

// adj. 1. Denoting any approach to grammatical characterization involving generative grammar(s), in any sense of that term. 2. Denoting any approach to grammatical characterization which is fully explicit, which is completely...

It takes three generations to make a gentleman. (American) One generation opens the road upon which another generation travels. (Chinese) One generation plants the trees under whose shade another takes its ease....

// n. The process by which a generative grammar enumerates and characterizes the sentences of a language. Such a grammar is said to ‘generate’ those...

Generation (from the Greek γενεά), also known as procreation, is the act of producing offspring. It can also refer to the act of creating something inanimate such as electrical generation or cryptographic code generation. A generation can also be...