Definition of Generalizations

1. Noun. (plural of generalization) ¹

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Definition of Generalizations

1. generalization [n] - See also: generalization

Lexicographical Neighbors of Generalizations

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generalising
generalism
generalisms
generalissimo
generalissimos
generalist
generalistic
generalists
generalities
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generalizability
generalizable
generalization
generalizations
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generalized
generalized anxiety disorder
generalized continuum hypothesis
generalized epilepsy
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generally
generally accepted accounting practices
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Literary usage of Generalizations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Effects of Winds and of Barometric Pressures on the Great Lakes by John Fillmore Hayford (1922)
"Generalizations. In the course of this investigation, during the consideration of the many details of the evidence which it is not feasible to set forth ..."

2. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1900)
"The experience, however, on which our approximate generalizations are grounded, has so rarely been subjected to, or admits of, accurate numerical estimation ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It seems to be due partly to prejudice, partly to a priori inferences, and partly to hasty generalizations from isolated and inadequate data. ..."

4. Inequalities in Statistics and Probability: Proceedings of the Symposium on by Yung Liang Tong (1984)
"Our objective is to present some recent generalizations of this ... For discussions of various generalizations of (1 .1) see Beckenbach and Bellman (1965), ..."

5. Symbolic Logic by John Venn (1881)
"Generalizations OF THE COMMON LOGIC. THROUGHOUT this work we have been occupied at almost every step in considering the extensions which can be effected in ..."

6. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1867)
"The experience, however, on which our approximate generalizations are grounded, has so rarely been subjected to, or admits of, accurate numerical estimation ..."

7. Nature Study and the Child by Charles B. Scott (1900)
"Broad generalizations based on very few particulars lead to careless, hasty, and often erroneous thinking. While schoolroom conditions will not admit of the ..."

8. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1912)
"It is an elementary rule in statistics that averages and percentages may be used for generalizations only when derived from large numbers, the reason being ..."

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