Generic or generics may refer to:
In business
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Generic term
Trademark distinctiveness is an important concept in the law governing trademarks and service marks. A trademark may be eligible for registration, or registrable, if it performs the essential trademark function, and has distinctive character. Re ...
, a common name used for a range or class of similar things not protected by trademark
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Generic brand
Generic brands of consumer products (often supermarket goods) are distinguished by the absence of a brand name, instead identified solely by product characteristics and identified by plain, usually black-and-white packaging. Generally they imitat ...
, 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
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Generic trademark
A generic trademark, also known as a genericized trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that, because of its popularity or significance, has become the generic term for, or synonymous with, a general class of products or ...
, a trademark that sometimes or usually replaces a common term in colloquial usage
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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
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Generic function
In computer programming, a generic function is a function defined for polymorphism.
In statically typed languages
In statically typed languages (such as C++ and Java), the term ''generic functions'' refers to a mechanism for ''compile-time pol ...
, a computer programming entity made up of all methods having the same name
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Generic programming
Generic programming is a style of computer programming in which algorithms are written in terms of types ''to-be-specified-later'' that are then ''instantiated'' when needed for specific types provided as parameters. This approach, pioneered b ...
, a computer programming paradigm based on method/functions or classes defined irrespective of the concrete data types used upon instantiation
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Generics in Java
Generics are a facility of generic programming that were added to the Java programming language in 2004 within version J2SE 5.0. They were designed to extend Java's type system to allow "a type or method to operate on objects of various types whil ...
In linguistics
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pronoun
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (abbreviated ) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.
Pronouns have traditionally been regarded as one of the parts of speech, but some modern theorists would not co ...
or other word used with a less specific meaning, such as:
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generic ''you''
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generic ''he'' or
generic ''she''
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generic ''they''
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Generic mood
The gnomic (abbreviated ), also called neutral, generic, or universal aspect, mood, or tense, is a grammatical feature (which may refer to aspect, mood, or tense) that expresses general truths or aphorisms.
Uses and occurrence
Used to describ ...
, a grammatical mood used to make generalized statements like ''Snow is white''
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Generic antecedent
Generic antecedents are representatives of classes, referred to in ordinary language by another word (most often a pronoun), in a situation in which gender is typically unknown or irrelevant. These mostly arise in generalizations and are particul ...
s, referents in linguistic contexts, which are classes
In mathematics
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Generic filter In the mathematical field of set theory, a generic filter is a kind of object used in the theory of forcing, a technique used for many purposes, but especially to establish the independence of certain propositions from certain formal theories, such ...
, in mathematical logic and set theory, a tool for studying axiom independence
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Generic point
In algebraic geometry, a generic point ''P'' of an algebraic variety ''X'' is, roughly speaking, a point at which all generic properties are true, a generic property being a property which is true for almost every point.
In classical algebraic g ...
, 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
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Generic polynomial In mathematics, a generic polynomial refers usually to a polynomial whose coefficients are indeterminates. For example, if , , and are indeterminates, the generic polynomial of degree two in is ax^2+bx+c.
However in Galois theory, a branch of al ...
, a polynomial whose coefficients are indeterminates
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Generic property
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 polynom ...
, a formal definition of a property shared by almost all objects of a specific type
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GENERIC formalism In non-equilibrium thermodynamics, GENERIC is an acronym for General Equation for Non-Equilibrium Reversible-Irreversible Coupling. It is the general form of dynamic equation for a system with both reversible and irreversible dynamics (generated b ...
, a mathematical framework to describe irreversible phenomena in thermodynamics
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1-generic, in computability, a kind of "random" sequence
Other
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Generic role-playing game system
A ''generic'' or ''universal'' role-playing game system is a role-playing game system designed to be independent of setting and genre. Its rules should, in theory, work the same way for any setting, world, environment or genre in which one would wa ...
, a framework that provides rule mechanics for any setting—world or environment or genre
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Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
, the generic name for classification of an organism in taxonomy
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Album – Generic Flipper
''Album – Generic Flipper'' is the debut studio album by the noise rock band Flipper. It was released in June 1982 by Subterranean Records. It is also referred to as ''Album'', ''Album: Generic'', ''Generic Flipper'' and just ''Generic''. ...
'', an album by the band Flipper
* Generic, the surname of the titular character and his family on ''
Bobby’s World
''Bobby's World'' (originally known as ''The World According to Bobby'') is an American animated comedy children's television series, which ran from September 8, 1990, to February 23, 1998, on the Fox Kids network. The show was created by Canad ...
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See also
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Generic name (disambiguation)
Generic name may refer to:
* Generic name (biology), the name of a biological genus
* Placeholder name, words that can refer to objects or people whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown
Business and law
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