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]