Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Generalization; the process of generalizing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of generalizing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic
generalization - noun computing The process of making
generic ; conversion to usegenerics .
Etymologies
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Examples
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To help prevent the "generification" of its brand name, Google recently sent out a series of legal letters to media organizations, asking them not to use the company name as a verb ....
StraightUpSearch 2009
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To help prevent the "generification" of its brand name, Google recently sent out a series of legal letters to media organizations, asking them not to use the company name as a verb ....
StraightUpSearch 2009
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As an American citizen I have every right to complain about the corporatization and homogenization and generification of our so-called society.
Mouse Print»Blog Archive » Tropicana: Please Don’t Squeeze the Customer 2008
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But the big ticket items were "tweet" as word of the year and "google" the verb as word of the decade-two terms not only notable for their popularity, but because both are examples of the generification of language, since "tweet" and "Google" are proprietary terms.
GOOD 2010
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There's a post-generification breakout strategy for AT
Strategy Innovation Blog Futurelab 2010
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When it comes to organic growth, the 4% in fact includes generification, of course, of those Plavix and Eloxatin-Plavix yield on Eloxatin.
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L quarter-after-quarter due either to exchange rate variation or due to immediate impact of the generification on one quarter.
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As we said on major occasions, I mean we will - I mean we don't want to go for a payout policy when we know that there will be fluctuation in our P&L quarter-after-quarter due either to exchange rate variation or due to immediate impact of the generification on one quarter.
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Of course, we adjust our save on not getting spend to products and to the generification when it comes, but it goes beyond that.
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There's a post-generification breakout strategy for AT
Strategy Innovation Blog Futurelab 2010
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