Procedural vs Generative - What's the difference?
procedural | generative |
Related to procedure.
(computing) Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.
(literature) A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.
* 2000 , Gary Hausladen, Places for Dead Bodies (page 35)
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
* That generative particle. — Bentley
*
As adjectives the difference between procedural and generative
is that procedural is procedural while generative is having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.procedural
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds; it wasn't the facts or the law, it was just they hadn't filed the correct forms.
- a procedural''' texture; '''procedural terrain
Derived terms
* procedurallyNoun
(en noun)- It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.
See also
*generative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other.