previous generation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpreviousandgeneration
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previous
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈpriː.vi.əs/us/ˈpriː.vi.əs/
happening or existing before something or ...
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generation
noun
uk/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
all the people of about the same age within a society or within a ...
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(Definition ofpreviousandgenerationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Note that in a multi-generation experiment parents were the selected offspring in thepreviousgenerationof selection.
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Our figures show that there is a somewhat lower frequency of consanguineous unions in the present than in thepreviousgeneration.
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From those individuals that survive viability selection in thepreviousgeneration, males and females are randomly assigned to monogamous pairs.
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For the purposes of optimal control, state equations must be functions of state and control variables in thepreviousgenerationonly (first-order difference equations).
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Most of the chapters are well-documented, with references to contemporary scholarship, with a greater sense of context than apreviousgenerationoffered.
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Each subsequent generation was produced by randomly sampling females from thepreviousgeneration.
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Medical devices must be repeatedly tested and modified; innovation occurs incrementally, with each model slightly different from thepreviousgeneration.
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Secular government was not equipped to produce the godly society to which thepreviousgenerationof leaders had aspired.
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Especially, let us call the model in thepreviousgenerationthe main body of the product.
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The non-evolving intermediary solutions are the solutions in a generation t that didn't evolve with respect to thepreviousgeneration.
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By 1984, ' early retirement ' had become an extended and unprecedented ' lifecourse stage ', one that nopreviousgenerationhad known.
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In fact, eachpreviousgenerationof speakers plays the innovators' role.
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The house would continue to shelter a stem family with ancestors and collaterals, as in thepreviousgeneration.
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Several mathematical strategies can be employed to create new candidate vectors for the current generation, based on the old candidate vectors of thepreviousgeneration.
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Given the tuple produced by thepreviousgeneration, the nextstate function (which is not recursive!) calculates the tuple of the current generation.
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In other words, in a new generation individuals will appear who resemble the fit individuals from thepreviousgeneration.
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The two representative collaborators are the best individual and one random individual from thepreviousgeneration.
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