generate
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
generate/ˈʤenəreɪt/
▶verb
- 1 cause to arise or come about.
- 2 produce (energy, especially electricity).
- 3 Mathematics & Linguistics produce (a set or sequence of items) by performing mathematical or logical operations on an initial set.
■ Mathematics form (a line, surface, or solid) by notionally moving a point, line, or surface.
– derivatives
generable adjective.
generable adjective.
– origin C16 (earlier (ME) as generation), in the sense ‘beget, procreate’: from L. generat-, generare, ‘create’, from genus, gener- ‘stock, race’.
'generate' also found in these Oxford entries:
earn
- eliminate
- fund-raiser
- graphics
- mine
- photoelectric cell
- procreate
- raise
- spawn
- steam
- steam engine
- tent pole
- transformational grammar
- transmitter
- tricarboxylic acid cycle
- typeset
- wave farm
- windmill
- yield
