Generalisation

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  generalisation
       n 1: an idea having general application; "he spoke in broad
            generalities" [syn: {generalization}, {generality}]
       2: the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting
          common properties of instances [syn: {abstraction}, {generalization}]
       3: reasoning from detailed facts to general principles [syn: {generalization},


           {induction}, {inductive reasoning}]
       4: (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus
          to a similar stimulus [syn: {generalization}, {stimulus
          generalization}, {stimulus generalisation}]