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generate meaning

EN[ˈdʒɛn.əɹ.eɪt] [ˈdʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt]
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  • Generate may refer to:
  • Create
  • Science and math:
  • Generate and test (trial and error)
  • Generating function, in math and physics
  • Generating primes
  • Generating set
  • Generating trigonometric tables
  • Other:
  • Generate ministry, young adult event
  • Generated collection, in music theory
  • Generating Application Propositions, in business
  • Generate LA-NY, digital entertainment studio
  • "Generate", a song by Collective Soul
  • "Generate", a song by Eric Prydz

    Definition of generate in English Dictionary

  • VerbSGgeneratesPRgeneratingPT, PPgeneratedSUF-ate
    1. (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
      1. In the last 20 minutes Athletic began to generate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute.
    2. (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
      1. Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat. ‎
    3. (transitive) To procreate, beget.
      1. They generated many offspring. ‎
    4. (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
      1. Rotating a circle generates a sphere. ‎
    5. (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
    6. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • The phospholipid pseudogel was prepared at a molar ratio of [DMPC]/[DHPC] = 2.5 at 10% wt/vol in an aqueous solution of 100 mM MOPS buffer (pH 7) in order to generate the nanogel separation matrix.
        • The pyrG inserted into the gene replacement cassette was amplified from pCDA21 plasmid [40 ] and was used to generate a marker for prototrophy in the mutant strain.
        • A cylinder is a solid of revolution generated by rotating a rectangle about one of its axes. ‎
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Verbs
        • Intransitive verbs
          • Transitive verbs
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        Meaning of generate for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "generate" is a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.
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