English-Czech translations for generation

• generace
  Dvacet let je téměř polovina generace. Twenty years is almost half a generation.
  Odpověď je jednoduchá: mladá generace. That is easy to answer: the young generation.
  Říká se, že každá generace má svoje vlastní výzvy. Every generation has its own challenges, so they say.
• generování
  Občas máme problémy s generováním našich sil, což je něco, co je pro vás velmi důležité vědět. We have problems sometimes with force generation and this is something that is very important for you to know.
  Bez rychlejšího generování sil, ať už se jedná o policii, státní zástupce nebo vojsko, bude velmi obtížné jednat v rytmu, v tempu, které krizové řízení vyžaduje. Without more rapid force generation, be it police, prosecutors, or military, it will be very difficult to act at the rhythm, at the speed, that is required in crisis management.
• pokolení
  Vždyť demografická situace je výsledkem právě zájmu nebo nezájmu státu o budoucí pokolení. The demographic situation is simply an outcome of the interest or lack of interest shown by the state in the next generation.
  Je to jeden z nezbytných činitelů, pokud chceme budoucím pokolením evropských občanů nabídnout slibnou budoucnost. This is an essential factor when it comes to offering future generations of European citizens a promising future.
  Průměrný index porodnosti na jednu ženu v Evropské unii je 1,5, což nestačí na to, abychom nahradili současná pokolení. The average birth rate in women in the European Union is 1.5, which is too low to replace the current generations.
• produkce
  Týká se to stejnou měrou průmyslové produkce a výroby energie a v určitém rozsahu ovšem také dopravy. This relates just as much to industrial production and energy generation, but also, to a special extent, to transport.
  Mezi ně patří dřevařský průmysl a ve stále větší míře také produkce biomasy nejen pro vytápění, ale i pro výrobu elektřiny. These include the timber industry and, increasingly, the production of biomass, not only for heating, but also for electricity generation.
  Primární průmyslová odvětví a produkce energie vyžadují mnoho let investic a koncentrace kapitálu, což znamená, že je třeba dotací. Primary industries and power generation require many years of investment and concentration of capital, which means they need to be subsidised.

Definition of generation

• The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.
• The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
• Race, family; breed.
• A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
• Descendants, progeny; offspring.
• A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
• 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, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc
• A specific age range whose members can relate culturally to one another
• A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions
• A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality

Examples

• This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
• Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
• All generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker
• the generation of a line or curve
• Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
• People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.

Related words

• regeneration
• generational
• intergenerational
• degeneration
• regenerations
• cogeneration
• neurodegeneration
• transgenerational
• multigenerational