Generic or generics may refer to:
In business
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Generic term, 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, 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
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, a grammatical mood used to make generalized statements like ''Snow is white''
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Generic antecedents, referents in linguistic contexts, which are classes
In mathematics
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Generic filter, in mathematical logic and set theory, a tool for studying axiom independence
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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
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Generic polynomial, 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 polynomi ...
, a formal definition of a property shared by almost all objects of a specific type
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GENERIC formalism, a mathematical framework to describe irreversible phenomena in thermodynamics
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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
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Generic role-playing game system, 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'', 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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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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