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'''Generic''' or '''generics''' may refer to:

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==In business==
* [[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 ''you'']]
**[[Generic he|generic ''he'']] or [[Generic she|generic ''she'']]
**[[Generic they|generic ''they'']]
* [[Generic mood]], a grammatical mood used to make generalized statements like ''Snow is white''
* [[Generic antecedent]]s, 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==
* [[Generic name (disambiguation)]]

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