generalization
Nouns
- (n) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles inductive reasoning, generalisation, induction,
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(n) an idea or conclusion having general application
- he spoke in broad generalities
- (n) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances generalisation, abstraction,
- (n) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization, generalisation,