Generation
Energy
The electricity generated by a system as recorded by a KWH meter, recorded in KWH or MWH.
- — Smart Growth/Smart Energy Toolkit Glossary retrieved 2014-05-26
Energy Market
The act of producing electrical energy from other forms of energy (such as thermal, mechanical, chemical or nuclear); also, the amount of electric energy produced, usually expressed in kilowatthours (KWh) or megawatthours (MWh).
- — Guide to Market Oversight Glossary retrieved 2014-06-26
Water
Records Management
degree of remoteness of a copy, usually photographic, from the original. Subsequent generations can incur degradation of the image
Telecommunications
In audio and video analog recording, pertaining to the number of duplication steps between an original recording and a given copy. Note 1: A second generation duplicate is a copy of the original master and a third generation duplicate is a copy of a copy of the original master, etc. Note 2: Relative to digital duplication, the copy is almost always identical to the original, so the term generation is irrelevant.