General(a.) Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.
General(a.) Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion.
General(a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression.
General(a.) Common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom.
General(a.) Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire.
General(a.) As a whole; in gross; for the most part.
General(a.) Usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method.
General(a.) The whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular.
General(a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.
General(a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general.
General(a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule.
General(a.) The public; the people; the vulgar.
Generalities(pl. ) of Generality
Generality(n.) The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
Generality(n.) That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase.
Generality(n.) The main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the generality of a nation, or of mankind.
Generalization(n.) The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.
Generalization(n.) A general inference.
Generalize(v. i.) To form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.
Generalize(v. t.) To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
Generalize(v. t.) 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.
Generalize(v. t.) To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
Generalized(a.) Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
Generalized(imp. & p. p.) of Generalize
Generalizer(n.) One who takes general or comprehensive views.
Generalizing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Generalize
Generally(adv.) In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
Generally(adv.) In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively.
Generally(adv.) Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.
Generalness(n.) The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness.
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