end vs generation

end

noun
  • A purpose, goal, or aim. 

  • A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion. 

  • An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory) 

  • The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide. 

  • Result. 

  • The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. 

  • The terminal point of something in space or time. 

  • One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. 

  • Money. 

  • One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground. 

  • That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap. 

  • Death. 

  • The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end. 

verb
  • to come to an end 

  • To finish, terminate. 

generation

noun
  • The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. 

  • Race, family; breed. 

  • 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 version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions. 

  • The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. 

  • The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time. 

  • 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. 

  • A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another. 

  • A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality. 

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