noun. The act or an instance of generalizing.

noun. A principle, statement, or idea having general application.

noun. In pathology, the involvement of the entire system in a morbid process which was at first local.

noun. The act of generalizing; recognition of a character as being common to two or more objects; also, the process of forming a general notion.

noun. Induction; an inference from the possession of a character by each individual or by some of the individuals of a class to its possession by all the individuals of that class; the observation that the known individuals of a species, or the known species of a genus, have a character in common, and the consequent attribution of that character to the whole class; also, a conclusion so reached.

noun. In mathematics, the process or result of modifying a proposition so as to obtain another having wider subject and predicate, but such that a limitation which, if applied to the new subject, gives the old subject, will reproduce the old predicate when applied to the new.

noun. Also spelled generalisation.

noun. The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.

noun. A general inference.

noun. Alternative spelling of generalisation.

noun. reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

noun. the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

noun. an idea or conclusion having general application

noun. (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus

"(The only recent exception to this generalization is the brilliantly crafted pending 'clean energy' subsidies case brought by the United Steelworkers.)"

colligation  theorisation  theorization  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

abstraction  analogy  assertion  assertions  assumption  

Baconian method  a fortiori reasoning  a posteriori reasoning  a priori reasoning  abstraction