Generalise vs Generalize - What's the difference?
generalise | generalize | Alternative forms |
To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
* W. Nicholson
To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.
* Coleridge
Generalize is a derived term of generalise.
Generalize is a alternative form of generalise.
As verbs the difference between generalise and generalize
is that generalise is standard spelling of from=Non-Oxford British spelling|lang=en|generalize while generalize is to speak in generalities, or in vague terms.generalize
English
Alternative forms
* generalise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(en-verb)- Copernicus generalized' the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton ' generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.
- A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts.