generification
English
Etymology
From Latin genus (“kind, class”). See -fy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒəˌnɛɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Noun
generification (usually uncountable, plural generifications)
- (computing) The process of making generic; the conversion to use generics.
- (dated) A generalization.[1]
- 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
- Out of this the universal is elaborated by generification.
References
- ^ “generification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.