Gen`er*al*i*za"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. g'en'eralisation.]
1.
The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.
Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many.
Sir W. Hamilton.
2.
A general inference.
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