Generation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals. Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspring. A period of around thirty years, the average amount of time before a child takes the place of its parents. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy, or collectively the body of people who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one time. Race; kind; family; breed; stock. 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; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc. The aggregate of the functions and phenomena which attend reproduction.
Example sentence: Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
Multiplication
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The process of computing the sum of a number with itself a specified number of times, or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.A calculation involving multiplication.
Example sentence: My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.