In population studies, the direct offspring of a reference population (roughly) constitutes a single generation. For a cellular automaton, the fundamental unit of time during which the rules of reproduction are applied once is called a generation.
Generation
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Generation." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Generation.html