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Noun Concept
Categories: Time in life, Ecology, Population dynamics
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generation  generation time
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The normal time between successive generations WordNet 3.0
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The normal time between successive generations WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In population biology and demography, generation time is the average time between two consecutive generations in the lineages of a population. Wikipedia
Average time from one generation to another within the same population Wikidata
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. Wiktionary
Period of around thirty years. Wiktionary (translation)
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They had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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time period
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