generate: significado e definições

To bring into being; give rise to: generate a discussion.

To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process: generate heat.

To engender (offspring); procreate.

Mathematics To form (a geometric figure) by describing a curve or surface.

Computer Science To produce (a program) by instructing a computer to follow given parameters with a skeleton program.

Linguistics To construct (a sentence, for example), as in generative grammar.