Non-proprietary designation for a drug.

Broad category representing common concepts.

Less expensive, equivalent prescription medications.

Equivalent, cheaper version of brand-name.

Competitive approaches to outperform others.

(object-oriented programming) A class defined with at least one generic type in its parameters.

(object-oriented programming) Entity made up of all methods having the same name.

Non-branded, chemically equivalent medications.

Typically true for most cases.

Generic brands of consumer products (often supermarket goods) are distinguished by the absence of a brand name, instead identified solely by product characteristics and identified by plain, usually black-and-white packaging.

Writing code with generic types.