Usually means: Applying learned knowledge to new.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. generalization: Merriam-Webster
  2. generalization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. generalization: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. generalization: Collins English Dictionary
  5. generalization: Vocabulary.com
  6. Generalization, generalization: Wordnik
  7. generalization: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. generalization: Wiktionary
  9. generalization: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. generalization: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. generalization: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. generalization: Dictionary.com
  13. generalization: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Generalization (learning), Generalization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Generalization: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. generalization: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. generalization: Rhymezone
  18. Generalization: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. generalization: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. generalization: FreeDictionary.org
  21. generalization: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. generalization: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. generalization: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. generalization: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. generalization: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. generalization: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. generalization: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  An act or instance of generalizing; concluding that something true of a subclass is true of the entire class
▸ noun:  The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
▸ noun:  Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
▸ noun:  An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) A proof, axiom, problem, or definition that includes another's cases, and also some additional cases; a conclusion reached by inferring from specific cases to more general cases or principles.

Similar:
inductive reasoning, generality, induction, transfer, abstraction, carry-over, transfer of training, generalisation, blanket statement, synthesis, more...

Opposite:
specification, particularization, differentiation, individualization, detail

Types:
stereotype, prejudice, bias, more...

Phrases:
stimulus generalization, response generalization, Universal generalization, Existential generalization, mediated generalization, more...

Adjectives:
such, broad, empirical, inductive, hasty, simple, important, further, natural, sweeping, secondary

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Similar:
inductive reasoning, generality, induction, transfer, abstraction, carry-over, transfer of training, generalisation, blanket statement, synthesis, more...

Opposite:
specification, particularization, differentiation, individualization, detail

Types:
stereotype, prejudice, bias, more...

Phrases:
stimulus generalization, response generalization, Universal generalization, Existential generalization, mediated generalization, Faulty generalization, Generalization error, Cartographic generalization, more...

Adjectives:
such, broad, empirical, inductive, hasty, simple, important, further, natural, sweeping, secondary

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     off-white,     light brown, more...



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