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 generic drug is a pharmaceutical drug that contains the same chemical substance as a drug that was originally protected by chemical patents. Generic drugs are allowed for sale after the patents on the original drugs expire. Because the active ch ...

, 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 ** Generics in Java

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, in mathematical logic and set theory, a tool for studying axiom independence * Generic point, a point of an algebraic variety, which has no other property than those that are shared by all other points, or, in scheme theory, a point that contains all other points * Generic polynomial, a polynomial whose coefficients are indeterminates * Generic property, a formal definition of a property shared by almost all objects of a specific type * GENERIC formalism, a mathematical framework to describe irreversible phenomena in thermodynamics *

1-generic In mathematics, properties that hold for "typical" examples are called generic properties. For instance, a generic property of a class of functions is one that is true of "almost all" of those functions, as in the statements, "A generic polynomi ...

, in computability, a kind of "random" sequence

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 * Generic, the surname of the titular character and his family on '' Bobby’s World''

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