Generic

• 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 ==In computer programming==

• 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 ==In linguistics==

• 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 ==In mathematics==

• 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 ==Other==

• 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 ==See also==