Generic

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

• Ad hoc
• Problem solving

External links

• generic @ Wiktionary