gen.

Class; kind.

(grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.

(now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).

“The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.”

Identification as a man, a woman or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)

(hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).

Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular.

(sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent.

Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.

Not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category.

Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite.

Not limited to a specific class; miscellaneous, concerned with all branches of a given subject or area.

Popularly or widely.

“It is generally known that the Earth is round.”

As a rule; usually.

“I generally have a walk in the afternoon.”

Without reference to specific details.

“Generally speaking …”

Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.

The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.

The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.

Race, family; breed.

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.

“This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1”

Descendants, progeny; offspring.

The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.

A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.

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, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.

“the generation of a line or curve”

A specific age range whose members can relate culturally to one another.

“Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.”

A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.

“People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.”

A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.

(grammar) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.

(grammar) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.

A rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank.

“All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.”

A group with common attributes.

A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.

Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character

“His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir.”

Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.

The tone or sound emitted by an object

The faculty or power of utterance

“to cultivate the voice”

That which is communicated; message; meaning.

An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered

Command; precept.

One who speaks; a speaker.

A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.

(grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.

“The verbal system of Latin has two voices, active and passive.”

In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.

“The theme of this piece constantly migrates between the three voice parts.”

(IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.