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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
first generation
noun
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▪ But the life of a first generation feminist can be plagued by disconcerting lapses.
▪ Conversely, many younger people will be the first generation in their family who can expect to inherit substantial amounts.
▪ In this programme, the first generation has three items, of magnitudes 1, 2 and 3, turning through 180°.
▪ The first generation of peas were all tall.
▪ The big winner in a system of intergenerational transfers is the first generation.
▪ The fact that service companies make up most of the first generation of 1990s downsizers-turned-upsizers supports this analysis.
▪ This was also the first generation to take full advantage of the decentralized workplaces made possible by information technology.
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First generation

First generation may refer to:

  • First-generation immigrant, a citizen or resident who is an immigrant or has immigrant parents
  • First-generation antihistamine, the oldest H-antihistaminergic drugs
  • First-generation programming language, any of a class of machine-level programming languages
  • 1G, the first generation of wireless telephone technology
  • History of video game consoles (first generation) (1972–1977)
First Generation (sculpture)

First Generation is a bronze sculpture by Singaporean sculptor Chong Fah Cheong. The sculpture was created as part of a series of sculptures by various sculptors, in the Open Air Interpretative Centre project by the Singapore Tourism Board. Chong's sculpture was the first to be unveiled on December 31, 2000.

Usage examples of "first generation".

He was red-haired and handsome, and old enough to be one of the firstborn, the first generation of gengineered Herans.

He was one of the very first generation of starship commanders, a fellow classmate of Christopher Pike, Akiko Torunaga, and the Vulcan Kadish.

His followers had seized upon the manner of his death, added it to Young Word's own remembered sermons, and created out of the mix an elaborate framework of beliefs and rituals which had proven too popular to be subjected to much in the way of persecution after the first generation.

In the first generation there will be some dozens of intelligent young mulattoes, much superior in average intelligence to the negroes.

These light degree of variability in hybrids from the first cross or in the first generation, in contrast with their extreme variability in the succeeding generations, is a curious fact and deserves attention.