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Generic or generics may refer to:

• Generic term, a common name used for a range or class of similar things not protected by trademark
• Generic brand, a brand for a product that does not have an associated brand or trademark, other than the trading name of the business providing the product
• Generic trademark, a trademark that sometimes or usually replaces a common term in colloquial usage
• Generic drug, a drug identified by its chemical name rather than its brand name

• Generic function, a computer programming entity made up of all methods having the same name
• Generic programming, a computer programming paradigm based on method/functions or classes defined irrespective of the concrete data types used upon instantiation
  • Generics in Java

• A pronoun or other word used with a less specific meaning, such as:
  • generic you
  • generic he or generic she
  • generic they
• Generic mood, a grammatical mood used to make generalized statements like Snow is white
• Generic antecedents, referents in linguistic contexts, which are classes

• Generic filter, in mathematical logic and set theory, a tool for studying axiom independence
• Generic point, a point of an algebraic variety, which has no other property than those that are shared by all other points, or, in scheme theory, a point that contains all other points
• Generic polynomial, a polynomial whose coefficients are indeterminates
• Generic property, a formal definition of a property shared by almost all objects of a specific type
• GENERIC formalism, a mathematical framework to describe irreversible phenomena in thermodynamics
• 1-generic, in computability, a kind of "random" sequence

• Generic role-playing game system, a framework that provides rule mechanics for any setting—world or environment or genre
• Genus, the generic name for classification of an organism in taxonomy
• Album – Generic Flipper, an album by the band Flipper
• Generic, the surname of the titular character and his family on Bobby’s World

• Generic name (disambiguation)

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