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What does second-generation mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word second-generation? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to someone whose parents are immigrants
  2. Of or pertaining to a second version of something that is materially different to the first
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This is not about poverty, deprivation or cultural dislocation of second-generation immigrants.
Like most second-generation Indians, I've made a regular chain of pilgrimages back to India while growing up.
Goldstein is designing increased intelligence as well as a self-correcting function into the second-generation Why Knot.
Many such parents are second-generation Americans and have achieved reasonable affluence and career success.
Many second-generation Asians do not want to follow their parents into the industry.
Set in Berlin, the film has two second-generation Turkish immigrants meet up in a psych ward.

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