generically
- adverb
- /dʒəˈnɛrɪkli/
- Specialized
- You can create templates that operate generically, enabling your code to be more flexible and adaptable.
Examples
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In other words, the choice is whether to develop the app especially for the native operating system of each specific device, or design the app more generically, using a device's web browser as a conduit that essentially presents the user with web pages simulating an app's various screens, controls, and visual elements.
Blog text (5) -
We have demonstrated that Equations 2 and 3 can be used generically with implantable hearing devices (middle ear implant and bone conductor, etc.) for evaluation of their effectiveness in both bench tests and temporal bone experiments.
Academic text (1998) -
The heat manager has to do this very generically, so it constantly is casting addresses to be void stars and void star stars.
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As an example, let me just generically let V represent the vector whose form is XI plus YJ.
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So it's some field, let's call it generically Phi, and it's a function of X&T, and that's a field configuration.
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Generically, the outputs of the two receiving antennas are two different linear combinations of the signals arriving from the two directions.
Academic text (2001) -
It is "extensible" because by following the rules, developers can create markup, generically known as "tags," to add meaning to any piece of data for any specific purpose.
Academic text (2004) -
Developers write the source code for a program in a language generically extended with constructs that explicitly declare alternative blocks of code and parameters that are to be exposed on the command line; for a programming language, we call the thus extended language PbO.
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Developers design applications to work generically across various platforms without modifying the core features.
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This library allows you to implement functions generically, so they can handle different data types seamlessly.
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Etymology
Generically comes from the root gen- meaning 'kind' or 'type', the same idea behind the word general. So in programming to write code generically is to make it work for many 'kinds' or 'types' without rewriting it.