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The adjective generic may indicate:
- Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific.
"...the essence is that such self-describing poets describe what is in them, but not peculiar to them, – what is generic, not what is special and individual." — Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
- Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
- (of a product or drug) Not having a brand name.
- (biology, not comparable) Of or relating to a taxonomic genus.
- (grammar) Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene.
- Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.
- (computing) (Of program code) Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
- (geometry, of a point) Having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
See also
External links
- generic @ Wiktionary
