Generic or generics may refer to:
In business
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Generic term
Trademark distinctiveness is an important concept in the law governing trademarks and service marks. A trademark may be eligible for registration, or registrable, if it performs the essential trademark function, and has distinctive character. Re ...
, a common name used for a range or class of similar things not protected by trademark
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Generic brand, a brand for a product that does not have an associated brand or trademark, other than the trading name of the business providing the product
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Generic trademark
A generic trademark, also known as a genericized trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that, because of its popularity or significance, has become the generic term for, or synonymous with, a general class of products or ...
, a trademark that sometimes or usually replaces a common term in colloquial usage
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Generic drug
A generic drug is a pharmaceutical drug that contains the same chemical substance as a drug that was originally protected by chemical patents. Generic drugs are allowed for sale after the patents on the original drugs expire. Because the active ch ...
, a drug identified by its chemical name rather than its brand name
In computer programming
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Generic function, a computer programming entity made up of all methods having the same name
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Generic programming
Generic programming is a style of computer programming in which algorithms are written in terms of data types ''to-be-specified-later'' that are then ''instantiated'' when needed for specific types provided as parameters. This approach, pioneer ...
, a computer programming paradigm based on method/functions or classes defined irrespective of the concrete data types used upon instantiation
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Generics in Java
In linguistics
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pronoun
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (Interlinear gloss, glossed ) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.
Pronouns have traditionally been regarded as one of the part of speech, parts of speech, but so ...
or other word used with a less specific meaning, such as:
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generic ''you''
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generic ''he'' or
generic ''she''
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generic ''they''
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Generic mood, a grammatical mood used to make generalized statements like ''Snow is white''
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Generic antecedents, referents in linguistic contexts, which are classes
In mathematics
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Generic filter, in mathematical logic and set theory, a tool for studying axiom independence
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Generic point
In algebraic geometry, a generic point ''P'' of an algebraic variety ''X'' is a point in a ''general position'', at which all generic property, generic properties are true, a generic property being a property which is true for Almost everywhere, ...
, a point of an algebraic variety, which has no other property than those that are shared by all other points, or, in scheme theory, a point that contains all other points
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Generic polynomial, a polynomial whose coefficients are indeterminates
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Generic property, a formal definition of a property shared by almost all objects of a specific type
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GENERIC formalism, a mathematical framework to describe irreversible phenomena in thermodynamics
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1-generic, in computability, a kind of "random" sequence
Other
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Generic role-playing game system, a framework that provides rule mechanics for any setting—world or environment or genre
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Genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
, the generic name for classification of an organism in taxonomy
* ''
Album – Generic Flipper'', an album by the band Flipper
* Generic, the surname of the titular character and his family on ''
Bobby’s World''
See also
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Generic name (disambiguation)
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