generalise

Verb

Meaning

draw from specific cases for more general cases

become systemic and spread throughout the body

cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use

speak or write in generalities

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Synonyms

infer generalize popularize extrapolate popularise vulgarise vulgarize general spread extend expand derive distribute propagate circulate

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Antonyms

separate reduce concrete narrow decrease disorder

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Hypernyms

reason spread broadcast speak mouth talk

Hyponyms

universalize overgeneralize universalise overgeneralise

Examples

this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system Source: Internet

They popularized coffee in Washington State Source: Internet

Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors Source: Internet

Fields main The fundamental properties of the absolute value for real numbers given in (2)–(5) above, can be used to generalise the notion of absolute value to an arbitrary field, as follows. Source: Internet

Coxeter (1973) Attempts to generalise the Euler characteristic of polyhedra to higher-dimensional polytopes led to the development of topology and the treatment of a decomposition or CW-complex as analogous to a polytope. Source: Internet

During this time he helped to generalise the strategy and tactics of the Bolsheviks to newly formed Communist parties across Europe and further afield. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

generalisability generalisable generalisation generalised generalised anxiety disorder generalised circle