To replace something unnecessarily specific (like a constant value) with something appropriately general (like a variable or parameter) Generalization makes code more versatile, more likely to be reused, and sometimes even easier to write
Involves a reduction of detail, either by resampling to a larger cell size (as a Raster operation) or reducing the number of points (as a Vector operation)
gen·er·al·ize generalizes generalizing generalized in BRIT, also use generalise1. If you generalize, you say something that seems to be true in most situations or for most people, but that may not be completely true in all cases. `In my day, children were a lot better behaved'. --- `It's not true, you're generalizing' It's hard to generalize about Cole Porter because he wrote so many great songs that were so varied
become systemic and spread throughout the body; "this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system" draw from specific cases for more general cases speak or write in generalities
{f} make general or indefinite statements; form a general principle; conclude, infer; make generally applicable; give a general character to (also generalise)
cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule
If you generalize something such as an idea, you apply it more widely than its original context, as if it was true in many other situations. A child first labels the household pet cat as a `cat' and then generalises this label to other animals that look like it