Generation is the act of producing offspring, or procreation. It is also the act of bringing something into being (such as electrical generation and cryptographiccode generation). A generation can also be a stage or degree in the succession of natural descent (such as grandfather, father, and son are three generations) or stages of successive improvement in the development of something, such as computers.
A generation can also represent all the people born at about the same time, called a generational cohort (see demographics). Historians hold differing opinions as to what extent dividing history into generations is useful or an improper over-generalization.
William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations list the generations of America. Their definition of "generation" is as follows: A cohort-group (all persons born in a limited span of consecutive years) whose length approximates the span of a phase of life (about 22 years) and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality (a generational persona recognized and determined by common age location, common beliefs and behavior, and perceived membership in a common generation).
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It is in this sense, for example, that, during the long-lived patriarchal age, a "generation" is rated as a period of 100 years (Genesis 15:16, compared with Genesis 15:13, and Exodus 12:40), and that, at a later date, it is represented as of only 30 to 40 years.
The word generation is used to mean an indefinite period of time: of time past, as in Deut., xxxii, 7, where we read: "Remember the days of old, think upon every generation", and in Isaias, lviii, 12, etc.; of time future, as in Ps.
Independently of the idea of time, generation is employed to mean a race or class of men as characterized by the same recurring condition or quality.
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