GENERIC

'Generic' means pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific members of the group. It may refer to:

★ Generic mood, a grammatical mood used to make generalized statements like ''Snow is white''

★ Generic antecedents, referents in linguistic contexts, which are classes.

★ Generic role-playing game system, a framework that provides rule mechanics for any setting—world or environment or genre

★ Generic drug, a drug identified by its chemical name rather than its brand name
'In computer programming:'

★ Generic function, a computer programming entity made up of all methods having the same name

★ Generic programming, (e.g. Free Pascal, C++, Java and C# ''generics'') a computer programming technique that allows one value to take different datatypes in a type-safe manner

★ GENERIC, a component of the GNU Compiler Collection.
'In mathematics:'

★ Generic filter, a mathematical filter that satisfies certain properties

★ Generic point, a point in algebraic geometry

★ GENERIC formalism, a mathematical framework to describe irreversible phenomena in thermodynamics

★ In algebraic geometry, when we say a generic member of the family has a certain property, it means exactly that the set of objects in the family that do not have that property is contained in a subvariety of strictly smaller dimension. [p21 Griffith and Harris]
'In business:'

★ 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

★ Genericized trademark, a trademark that sometimes or usually replaces a common term in colloquial usage

★ an ordinary language word which is not a registered tradename.

★ Porter generic strategies, a category scheme of business strategies

★ Semi-generic, a term used in the United States for certain wine designations that hold no legal meaning
'In toponymy:'

★ the component of a place name that indicates the type of place. For example, in the names ''Santa Monica Boulevard'' and ''Mount Everest'', the generics are ''Boulevard'' and ''Mount''.
'In zoology:'

★ anything petaining to a genus.
'In companies:'

★ Generic company
'In music:'

★ Album - Generic Flipper