Generic
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Generic or generics may refer to:
In business
- Generic term, a common name used for a range or class of similar things not protected by trademark
- Generic brand, a brand for a product that does not have an associated brand or trademark, other than the trading name of the business providing the product
- Generic trademark, a trademark that sometimes or usually replaces a common term in colloquial usage
- Generic drug, a drug identified by its chemical name rather than its brand name
In computer programming
- Generic function, a computer programming entity made up of all methods having the same name
- Generic programming, a computer programming paradigm based on method/functions or classes defined irrespective of the concrete data types used upon instantiation
In linguistics
- A pronoun or other word used with a less specific meaning, such as:
- generic you
- generic he or generic she
- generic they
- Generic mood, a grammatical mood used to make generalized statements like Snow is white
- Generic antecedents, referents in linguistic contexts, which are classes
In mathematics
- Generic filter, a mathematical filter that satisfies specific properties
- Generic point, a special kind of point whose behavior reflects the behavior of a closed subset of an algebraic variety or scheme
- Generic property, a formal definition of a property shared by almost all objects of a certain type
- GENERIC formalism, a mathematical framework to describe irreversible phenomena in thermodynamics
Other
- Generic role-playing game system, a framework that provides rule mechanics for any setting—world or environment or genre
- Genus, the generic name for classification of an organism in taxonomy
- Album – Generic Flipper, an album by the band Flipper
- The Advantage, an American band originally called Generic
See also
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