On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Generalisation. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as generalization or transfer and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Generalisation meaning
- The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
Synonyms of Generalisation
Using Generalisation
- The main meaning on this page is: The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties. | Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
- Useful related words include: generalization, transfer of training, transfer, stimulus generalisation.
- In the example corpus, generalisation often appears in combinations such as: generalisation of, the generalisation.
Context around Generalisation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 5 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Generalisation
- In this selection, "generalisation" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sweeping, hoary, broad and process stand out and add context to how "generalisation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a conceptual generalisation of pointers and a natural generalisation of finite. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "generalisation" sits close to words such as aaj, abn and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with generalisation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
No generalisation about Brexit is ever entirely correct. (8 words)
Can you offer an example other than a generalisation? (9 words)
Modern theorists, however, tend to see this as an unsatisfactory generalisation. (11 words)
In those languages or environments the advent of a condition (a "generalisation of an error" according to Kent Pitman ) implies a function call, and only late in the exception handler the decision to unwind the stack may be taken. (39 words)
However, some generalisation of Beijing cuisine can be characterised as follows: Foods that originated in Beijing are often snacks rather than main courses, and they are typically sold by small shops or street vendors. (34 words)
According to Rev Bempah, the generalisation of the activities of the pastors and churches is wrong because some pastors have and are still contributing to the development of the county. (30 words)
Can you offer an example other than a generalisation? (9 words)
Did he monitor how they voted – or is this another sweeping generalisation because he is piqued that they have simply been doing their job by questioning Brexiteer ministers? (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
We’d say that’s a bit of a generalisation, but the model seems to know what she wants.
This generalisation process — where we infer the capabilities of a model based on limited interactions — is key to understanding and improving the deployment of LLMs.
Can you offer an example other than a generalisation?
According to Rev Bempah, the generalisation of the activities of the pastors and churches is wrong because some pastors have and are still contributing to the development of the county.
Did he monitor how they voted – or is this another sweeping generalisation because he is piqued that they have simply been doing their job by questioning Brexiteer ministers?
No generalisation about Brexit is ever entirely correct.
On the evidence of a week’s intensive theatregoing in New York, I would suggest that hoary generalisation has been blown to smithereens.
As a very broad generalisation, many politicians seek certainties and facts whilst scientists typically offer probabilities and caveats.
By introducing arithmetical operations on quantities previously regarded as geometric and non-numerical, Thabit started a trend which led eventually to the generalisation of the number concept.
Compact groups are a natural generalisation of finite groups with the discrete topology and have properties that carry over in significant fashion.
However, some generalisation of Beijing cuisine can be characterised as follows: Foods that originated in Beijing are often snacks rather than main courses, and they are typically sold by small shops or street vendors.
Indeed, the notion of an abstract distance function in mathematics can be seen to be a generalisation of the absolute value of the difference (see "Distance" below).
In this way, preadditive categories can be seen as a generalisation of rings.
In those languages or environments the advent of a condition (a "generalisation of an error" according to Kent Pitman ) implies a function call, and only late in the exception handler the decision to unwind the stack may be taken.
It is a powerful generalisation of Hamiltonian theory that remains valid for curved spacetime.
It is a vast generalisation of Cayley's theorem from group theory (viewing a group as a particular kind of category with just one object).
Modern theorists, however, tend to see this as an unsatisfactory generalisation.
Objects that are shared but not owned can be accessed via a reference, raw pointer, or iterator (a conceptual generalisation of pointers).
This specification is a generalisation of the semantics of the Befunge programming language, which has a two- dimensional toroidal topology.
We have the following: The proof in the more general case where α(n) replaces 1 is essentially identical, as is the second generalisation.
Common combinations with generalisation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- generalisation of 11×
- the generalisation 2×