# generics

Pronunciation: say "juh-NAIR-iks" /d͡ʒɪˈnɛɹɪks/

## Noun

1. Plural of generic. — plural of generic
   - Simple: Plural of generic. Use this form when talking about more than one generic product.
   - _Insurance plans often encourage patients to choose generics over brand-name drugs._
   - _The supermarket's generics cost a fraction of the national brands._
2. The use of templates and similar tools to create generic source code that works across many different situations.
   - Simple: A way of writing computer code with templates so that one program can work in many situations.
   - _The team adopted generics to avoid duplicating logic for each data type._
   - _Generics in this language let a single container hold any type the caller chooses._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/generics (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).