generalizer
/ˈdʒɛnərəˌlaɪzər/
noun
- A person who makes broad statements or conclusions from limited information.
- The politician was criticized as a generalizer who ignored individual differences.
- In science, a careful generalizer uses data from many studies before drawing conclusions.
- He's a generalizer who assumes everyone from that country shares the same opinions.
- Something that makes a concept or rule more widely applicable.
- In mathematics, a theorem can be a powerful generalizer that applies to many cases.
- The software's generalizer function converts detailed data into broad categories.
- The algorithm acts as a generalizer, taking specific examples and finding patterns.
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