Generalize

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To reduce to a general form, class, or law.
  • intransitive verb. To render indefinite or unspecific.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To infer from many particulars.
  • intransitive verb. To draw inferences or a general conclusion from.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To make generally or universally applicable.
  • intransitive verb. To popularize.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To form a concept inductively.
  • intransitive verb. To form general notions or conclusions.
  • intransitive verb. To deal in generalities; speak or write vaguely.
  • intransitive verb. To spread through the body. Used of a usually localized disease.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In painting, to render large and typical characteristics rather than details.
  • To render general; make more general; bring under a general description or notion; treat or apply generically.
  • To infer inductively, as a general rule from a particular case or set of facts.
  • In mathematics, to modify, as a proposition, so as to obtain a wider proposition from which the former can be immediately deduced. See generalization, 3
  • To recognize that two or more objects have a common character; to form a general notion.
  • To reason inductively, from particular cases to general rules comprehending those cases.
  • Also spelled generalise.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
  • transitive verb. To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule.
  • transitive verb. To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
  • transitive verb. To speak in generalities; to talk in abstract terms.
  • intransitive verb. To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
  • verb. To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
  • verb. To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. become systemic and spread throughout the body
  • verb. draw from specific cases for more general cases
  • verb. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
  • verb. speak or write in generalities
  • Word Usage
    "Professor STEVE KOZLOWSKI (Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Michigan State University): And it's really very, very difficult to generalize from the small set of tasks that were examined in these studies, using college students, ad hoc teams, very short periods of measurement."
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