Creation | (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence |
initiation founding foundation institution origination creation innovation introduction instauration | the act of starting something for the first time, introducing something new, she looked forward to her initiation as an adult, the foundation of a new scientific society |
generation multiplication propagation | the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production |
creation creative activity | the human act of creating |
generation | the production of heat or electricity, dams were built for the generation of electricity |
verbal creation | creating something by the use of speech and language |
art artistic creation artistic production | the creation of beautiful or significant things, art does not need to be innovative to be good, I was never any good at art, he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully |
creation | an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
creation science | an effort to give scientific support for the truth of the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis |
generation gap | a difference between the views of young people and their parents |
genesis generation | a coming into being |
creation conception | the event that occurred at the beginning of something, from its creation the plan was doomed to failure |
generation | group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent |
coevals contemporaries generation | all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age |
beat generation beats beatniks | a United States youth subculture of the s, rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress, for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism, favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) |
baby boom baby-boom generation | the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II |
generation X gen X | the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the s and s) |
universe existence creation world cosmos macrocosm | everything that exists anywhere, they study the evolution of the universe, the biggest tree in existence |
abiogenesis autogenesis autogeny spontaneous generation | a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter |
wind generation wind power | power derived from the wind (as by windmills) |
pair production pair creation pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |
generation | the normal time between successive generations, they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade |
generation | a stage of technological development or innovation, the third generation of computers |