current generation

collocation in English

meaningsofcurrentandgeneration

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current
adjective
uk
/ˈkʌr.ənt/us
/ˈkɝː.ənt/
of the ...
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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 ofcurrentandgenerationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thecurrentgenerationof psychoanalysts is returning to an appreciation of systematic observational and developmental studies.
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Also, this is much more efficient than thecurrentgenerationof walking robots.
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Viewed from an academic perspective, thecurrentgenerationof three-dimensional seismic data (let alone future generations) is a sleeping giant.
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The banks managed by thecurrentgenerationuse the current deposits to buy the money off the old movers from the other island.
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Several mathematical strategies can be employed to create new candidate vectors for thecurrentgeneration, based on the old candidate vectors of the previous generation.
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Thecurrentgenerationcan pursue conservation patterns which ensure critical ecosystem functions for future generations.
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However, no mention whatsoever is made of the differences between people in thecurrentgeneration.
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In each generation, 25-30 pairs of wasps, chosen randomly from 500-600 wasps of thecurrentgeneration, were used to start the next generation.
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The pump forcurrentgenerationwas not operated for this series of experiments.
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Given the tuple produced by the previous generation, the nextstate function (which is not recursive!) calculates the tuple of thecurrentgeneration.
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Reproduction is a simple copy of an individual from the population of thecurrentgenerationto the population of the next generation.
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The emphasis is on fast access to assessment, hence individual play buttons for the eight candidates in thecurrentgeneration.
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In each generation, 30-40 female wasps, chosen randomly from over 500 wasps of thecurrentgeneration, were used to start the next generation.
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This motive does not apply to thecurrentgenerationof retirees who have experienced vast improvements in the quality of their housing.
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Most agree that this will require thecurrentgenerationto share some of the burden.
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The second variable, untried topics, contains the set of topics which the algorithm has not yet tried to use in itscurrentgenerationround.
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One of the crucial aspects of evolutionary learning is the fitness criterion that is used to select good parents from thecurrentgeneration.
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Consider, for example, an individual xi at generation t, which is dominated by p(i t) individuals in thecurrentgeneration.
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All these crossover operators are applied to the overall population of thecurrentgeneration.
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