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Definition of Generalizing
1. generalize [v] - See also: generalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Generalizing
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 ..."