What is "second-generation"

Usage examples of "second-generation".

Far away, on the opposite side of the galaxy, a well-bonded delivery firm had landed a brand-new second-generation Mule tug on Pandaros, the papers made out to Dunking Deep Space Ltd.

But the Lunar Transport Authority, a semiautonomous corporation, was promising that costs would come down dramatically with the planned arrival next year of the second-generation SSTO.

In tandem with the slave revolt plotted by Dunmore, Martin had tried to exploit some of the smoldering ethnic animosities in the region—in particular, between a second-generation settlement of Scots Highlanders (who held their lands directly from the Crown) and the more recent Lowland or Scotch-Irish immi­grants, many of whom had joined the rebel cause.

The dreadnoughts had all received new compensators, but they were only second-generation upgrades with no more than a six percent efficiency boost over the old style.

So we got here a few days ago, close onto 120 lights in only three ship's-months with the second-generation Hoyfarul FTL Drive, and it seems that the big war against the new alien species, the Tsa, is over.

Since she had a large and thriving brood of second-generation Manticoran children and her family had served so outstandingly, a convention of colony shareholders converted the Corporation's elective board into a constitutional monarchy and crowned Roger Winton King Roger of Manticore on August 1, 1471.

Our studies indicate that a first- or even second-generation fission device might be achievable, but the maximum yield for such a device is certainly less than a hundred—.

Our studies indicate that a first- or even second-generation fission device might be achievable, but the maximum yield for such a device is certainly less than a hundred - probably less than forty kilotons.

The pilot guided them slowly past Hovertanks and Logans, and second-generation Destroids along with armored ground vehicles and self-propelled artillery.

Heavens, my father was an immie, though I'm second-generation Lunarite on my mother's side.

Second-generation technology can feed the hungry without polluting the air and the seas.

Fueled by that conviction, and by their own youthful libidinous energy, and by a few cultural commentators who found this whole scenario fetchingly post-modern, they started a whole lot of second-generation bands and even a couple of record labels, of which Hammerdown Systems is the only one that didn't either go out of business or get turned into a wholly-owned subsidiary of an L.

Fueled by that conviction, and by their own youthful libidinous energy, and by a few cultural commentators who found this whole scenario fetchingly post-modern, they started a whole lot of second-generation bands and even a couple of record labels, of which Hammerdown Systems is the only one that didn’.

A few of the vellums within the folio were impossibly rare originals, but his prize possession was a second-generation copy of Labad's prophecy.