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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Generative \Gen"er*a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. g['e]n['e]ratif.]
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or
producing. ``That generative particle.''
--Bentley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from generate + -ive. Use in linguistics is attested by 1959. Related: Generativity.
Wiktionary
a. Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
WordNet
adj. having the ability to produce or originate; "generative power"; "generative forces" [syn: productive] [ant: consumptive]
producing new life or offspring; "tXsXwhe reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions"; "the reproductive or generative organs" [syn: procreative, reproductive]
Wikipedia
Generative may refer to:
- Generative actor, a person who instigates social change
- Generative art, art that has been created using an autonomous system that is frequently, but not necessarily, implemented using a computer
- Generative music, music that is ever-different and changing, and that is created by a system
Mathematics and science
- Generative anthropology, a field of study based on the theory that history of human culture is a genetic or "generative" development stemming from the development of language
- Generative model, a model for randomly generating observable data in probability and statistics
- Generative programming, a type of computer programming in which some mechanism generates a computer program to allow human programmers write code at a higher abstraction level
- Generative sciences, an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary science that explores the natural world and its complex behaviours as a generative process
- Generative systems, systems that use a few basic rules to yield patterns which can be extremely varied and unpredictable
Language
- Generative grammar, an approach to theoretical linguistics based on sets of rules that generate grammatically correct sentences
- Generative lexicon, a theory of semantics which focuses on the distributed nature of compositionality in natural language
- Generative metrics, theories of verse structure based on generative linguistic ideas
- Generative principle, the idea in foreign language teaching that humans have the capacity to generate an infinite number of phrases from a finite grammatical competence
- Generative semantics, an approach developed from transformational generative grammar that assumes that deep structures are the sole input to semantic interpretation
Usage examples of "generative".
Excessive marital indulgence produces abnormal conditions of the generative organs and not unfrequently leads to incurable disease.
Spirit, called Alkahest, has in itself the generative virtue of producing the triangular Cubical Stone, and contains in itself all the virtues to render men happy in this world and in that to come.
Principle not dwelling in the higher regions, one not powerful enough to ensure the permanence of the existences in which it is exhibited, one which in its coming into being and in its generative act is but an imitation of an antecedent Kind, and, as we have shown, cannot at every point possess the unchangeable identity of the Intellectual Realm.
Among the older naturalists, such as Pliny and Aristotle, and even in the older historians, whose scope included natural as well as civil and political history, the atypic and bizarre, and especially the aberrations of form or function of the generative organs, caught the eye most quickly.
A common and to my mind a ridiculous question is which of the two sexes enjoys the generative act the more.
Prolonging all the external lines of the Hexagon, which also it includes, we have six smaller triangles, whose bases cut each other in the central point of the Tetractys, itself always the symbol of the generative power of the Universe, the Sun, Brahma, Osiris, Apollo, Bel, and the Deity Himself.
The Undine, whom I was to obtain of the moon, was none other than Marcoline, who was to give me the necessary generative vigour by the sight of her beauty and by the contact of her hands.
The illustrious Count de Maistre, one of the ablest political philosophers who wrote in the last century, or the first quarter of the present, in his work on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions, maintains that constitutions are generated, not made, and excludes all human agency from their formation and growth.
So on the one hand there is the organic, biologically generative process represented by Indo-European, while on the other there is an inorganic, essentially un-regenerative process, ossified into Semitic: most important, Renan makes it absolutely clear that such an imperious judgment is made by the Oriental philologist in his laboratory, for distinctions of the kind he has been concerned with are neither possible nor available for anyone except the trained professional.
The term means nothing more than philoprogenitive urges deflected into channels that possess no generative significance.
Such are the functions of Acquisitiveness, Secretiveness, Selfishness, and Combativeness, as well as the Generative powers.
A begetter begets a thing like to itself in species, yet there is some unlikeness as to the accidents, owing either to the matter, or to weakness within the generative power.
Prolonging all the external lines of the Hexagon, which also it includes, we have six smaller triangles, whose bases cut each other in the central point of the Tetractys, itself always the symbol of the generative power of the Universe, the Sun, Brahma, Osiris, Apollo, Bel, and the Deity Himself.
And so likewise does Sallust the Philosopher, who admits in God a secondary intelligent Force, which descends into the generative matter to organize it.
There is nothing alarming about such limitlessness in generative forces and in Reason-Principles, when Soul is there to sustain all.