Generic name
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Generic name may refer to:
- Generic name (biology), the name of a biological genus
- Placeholder name, words that can refer to objects or people whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown
Business and law
- Generic brand, consumer products identified by product characteristics rather than brand name
- Generic term, a common name used for a range or class of similar things not protected by trademark
- Generic trademark, a brand name that has become the generic name for a product or service
- Generic name, a brand name designed not to be used as a trademark; see Drug nomenclature#Nonproprietary (generic) names
- Several official nonproprietary or generic naming systems for pharmaceutical substances:
- International Nonproprietary Name (INN)
- United States Adopted Name (USAN)
- Japanese Accepted Name (JAN)
- British Approved Name (BAN)
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gollark: But in general, people didn't do very well on the literally-just-programming-to-a-simple-spec section of the exam, despite it being very easy. I can try and find the paper, but it *may* require MS Teams interaction, which will bring my computer to its knees.
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See also
- Generic drug, a drug marketed under its chemical name without advertising
- Colloquial name, a name or term commonly used to identify something in informal language
- Generic (disambiguation)
- Common name (disambiguation)
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