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generalization
  • n  reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
  • n  an idea or conclusion having general application
  • n  the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
  • n  (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
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generalized anxiety disorder
  • n  an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
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generalized epilepsy
  • n  epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking
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generalized seizure
  • n  a seizure during which the patient becomes unconscious and has convulsions over the entire body
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generally accepted accounting principles
  • n  a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures
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generalship
  • n  the leadership ability of a military general
  • n  the office and authority of a general
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generation
  • n  all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
  • n  group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
  • n  the normal time between successive generations
    they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade
  • n  a stage of technological development or innovation
    the third generation of computers
  • n  a coming into being
  • n  the production of heat or electricity
    dams were built for the generation of electricity
  • n  the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
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generation gap
  • n  a difference between the views of young people and their parents
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generation x
  • n  the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s)
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