Diffuses and Generation

noun

• All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age.
  • synonyms: coevals, contemporaries
• Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent.
• The normal time between successive generations.
  • usage: "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
• A stage of technological development or innovation.
  • usage: "the third generation of computers"
• A coming into being.
  • synonyms: genesis
• The production of heat or electricity.
  • usage: "dams were built for the generation of electricity"
• The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production.
  • synonyms: multiplication, propagation

• (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
• (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
• (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
• (n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
• (n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
• (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.
• (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.

GENERATION is the process of producing electric energy by transforming other forms of energy. The amount of energy produced is expressed in watt-hours.