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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024gen•er•al•i•za•tion /ˌdʒɛnərələˈzeɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. - [uncountable] the act or process of generalizing.
[countable] a statement that is a general idea or principle. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024gen•er•al•i•za•tion ( jen′ər ə lə zā′shən),USA pronunciation n. - the act or process of generalizing.
- a result of this process;
a general statement, idea, or principle. - Philosophy[Logic.]
- a proposition asserting something to be true either of all members of a certain class or of an indefinite part of that class.
- the process of obtaining such propositions.
- Animal Behavior, Psychology[Psychol.]
- Also called stimulus generalization. the act or process of responding to a stimulus similar to but distinct from the conditioned stimulus.
- Also called response generalization. the act or process of making a different but similar response to the same stimulus.
- Also called mediated generalization. the act or process of responding to a stimulus not physically similar to the conditioned stimulus and not previously encountered in conditioning.
- the act or process of perceiving similarity or relation between different stimuli, as between words, colors, sounds, lights, concepts or feelings;
the formation of a general notion.
- generalize + -ation 1755–65
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: generalization, generalisation /ˌdʒɛnrəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ n - a principle, theory, etc, with general application
- the act or an instance of generalizing
- the derivation of a general statement from a particular one, formally by prefixing a quantifier and replacing a subject term by a bound variable. If the quantifier is universal (universal generalization) the argument is not in general valid; if it is existential (existential generalization) it is valid
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