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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 use generics.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin genus kind, class. See -fy.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • There's a post-generification breakout strategy for AT

    Strategy Innovation Blog Futurelab 2010

  • When it comes to organic growth, the 4% in fact includes generification, of course, of those Plavix and Eloxatin-Plavix yield on Eloxatin.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • L quarter-after-quarter due either to exchange rate variation or due to immediate impact of the generification on one quarter.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • 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.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • Of course, we adjust our save on not getting spend to products and to the generification when it comes, but it goes beyond that.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • There's a post-generification breakout strategy for AT

    Strategy Innovation Blog Futurelab 2010

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