Definition of Generalizing

1. Verb. (present participle of generalize) ¹

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Definition of Generalizing

1. generalize [v] - See also: generalize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Generalizing

generalities
generality
generalizability
generalizable
generalization
generalizations
generalize
generalized
generalized anxiety disorder
generalized continuum hypothesis
generalized epilepsy
generalized seizure
generalizer
generalizers
generalizes
generalizing
generall
generally
generally accepted accounting practices
generalness
generals
generals of the army
generalship
generalships
generalties
generalty
generant
generants
generatable
generate

Literary usage of Generalizing

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

1. The Teaching of Mathematics in the Elementary and the Secondary School by Jacob William Albert Young (1906)
"Generalizing conceptions; combining results. Mathematics gives exercise in widening and generalizing conceptions, in combining various results under one ..."

2. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"The echo-word construction is a generalizing coordinate construction in which the second member repeats the first, replacing the initial consonant (or zero ..."

3. The Cum-constructions: Their History and Functions by William Gardner Hale, Cornell University (1889)
"The generalizing indicative </i//-iy«o»(-clause (assuming a fact, in any time). ... The generalizing subjunctive ..."

4. An Essay on the Nature, the End, and the Means of Imitation in the Fine Arts by QUATREMÈRE de Quincy (1837)
"CHAPTER V. OF THE ACT OF Generalizing IN THE WORKS OF THE ARTS OF DESIGN. ... THE act of generalizing considered as an operation of the understanding, ..."

5. The Fundamental Laws of Human Behavior: Lectures on the Foundations of Any by Max Friedrich Meyer (1911)
"For the generalizing nervous function in another person's brain we substitute an imaginary mental state. The nervous correlates of sensation and imagery. ..."

6. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"Unreal conditions may be either particular or generalizing. 1398. The imperfect refers to present time or to a continued or habitual past act or state : ci ..."

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