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.
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.
The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
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.
A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line.
A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium.
A host-specific lineage of a brood parasite species.^([W])