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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
-gen \-gen\ [(1) From Gr -gen-, from the same root as ge`nos
race, stock (see {Genus}). (2) From Gr suffix -genh`s born.
Cf F. -g[`e]ne.]
1. A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of
producing, generating: as amphigen, amidogen, halogen.
2. A suffix meaning produced, generated; as exogen.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
gen
n : (British) informal term for information; "give me the gen on
your new line of computers"
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
gen /jen/ n.,v. Short for {generate}, used frequently in both
spoken and written contexts.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
gen
{generate}
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