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    gen
    [jen]
    noun
    gen (noun)
    1. information:
      "you've got more gen on him than we have"
    verb
    gen (verb) · gens (third person present) · genned (past tense) · genned (past participle) · genning (present participle)
    1. (gen up on)
      find out about:
      "we genned up on the agencies that had done the work"
      • (gen someone up)
        provide someone with information:
        "as everything's finalized, I can gen you up properly"
    Origin
    Second World War (originally used in the armed services): perhaps from the first syllable of general information.
    gen
    [jen]
    noun
    gen (noun) · gens (plural noun)
    1. short for generation.
      "the next gen of consoles" · "third-gen data protocols"
    -gen
    [j(ə)n]
    combiningform
    1. chemistry
      denoting a substance that produces something:
      "oxygen" · "allergen"
    2. botany
      denoting a substance or plant that is produced:
      "cultigen"
    Origin
    via French -gène from Greek genēs ‘-born, of a specified kind’, from gen- (root of gignomai ‘be born, become’, genos ‘a kind’).
    Gen.
    [Gen.]
    abbreviation
    1. General:
      "Gen. Eisenhower"
    2. Genesis (in biblical references).
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  1. gene, unit of hereditary information that occupies a fixed position (locus) on a chromosome. Genes achieve their effects by directing the synthesis of proteins.
    www.britannica.com/science/gene
    The meaning of GEN is generation —often used in combination.
    www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gen
    informal short for generation : used when saying what age group someone belongs to or whether they belong to the first, second, etc. age group of people in their family to have a particular nationality:
    dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gen
     
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