Generate

jen′ėr-āt, v.t. to produce: to bring into life: to originate.— adj. Gen′erable , that may be generated or produced.— ns. Gen′erant ( math. ), a line, point, or figure that produces another figure by its motion; Generā′tion , a producing or originating: a single stage in natural descent: the people of the same age or period: offspring, progeny, race: ( pl. ) genealogy, history ( B. ); Generā′tionism , traducianism.— adj. Gen′erātive , having the power of generating or producing.— ns. Gen′erātor , begetter or producer: the principal sound in music; G en′erātrix ( geom. ), the point, line, or surface which, by its motion, generates another magnitude.— adjs. Genet′ic , -al , pertaining to genesis or production.— adv. Genet′ically .— ns. Gen′etrix , Gen′itrix , a female parent; Gen′it or , a progenitor; Gen′iture , birth.— Alternation of generations , a complication in the life-history of plants, when the organism produces offspring unlike itself, but giving rise in turn to forms like the original parents; Spontaneous generation , the origination of living from non-living matter: abiogenesis. [L. generāre , - ātum — genus , a kind.]