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generation gap

Generation gap refers to the vast differences in terms of attitudes, experiences and taste between people born a certain amount of time apart who are living at the same time. (noun)

An example of a generation gap is the knowledge of the older baby boomers about computers versus the knowledge of young people born after the Internet had already exploded and taken off.

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