Generalized vs Generalizes - What's the difference?
generalized | generalizes |
Made more general, less specialized.
(generalize)
(generalize)
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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
As verbs the difference between generalized and generalizes
is that generalized is past tense of generalize while generalizes is third-person singular of generalize.As an adjective generalized
is made more general, less specialized.generalized
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The generalized formula applies to all cases, the specialized one only works on simple problems.
Verb
(head)generalizes
English
Verb
(head)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.