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Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale
The Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE) is a 10-item questionnaire measuring belief in one's ability to cope with difficult demands, created in German and adapted to many languages.
Generalized Snell's law
The generalized Snell's law extends classical reflection and refraction to interfaces imposing a spatially varying phase shift, proposed by Capasso's group at Harvard in 2011.
Generalized spatial modulation
Generalized spatial modulation (GSM) is a MIMO transmission scheme where a transmitter activates only some of its antennas, with the active antenna indices carrying information.
Generalized Stokes theorem
The generalized Stokes theorem, also called the Stokes-Cartan theorem, states that the integral of a form's exterior derivative over a manifold equals its integral over the boundary.
Generalized System of Preferences
The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) is a set of trade programs under which developed economies grant duty-free or reduced-duty access to products from developing countries.
Generalized tonic–clonic seizure
Generalised tonic-clonic seizure (ICD-11 8A68.4), formerly grand mal: a generalized-onset seizure with tonic stiffening then clonic jerking and loss of awareness, distinct from focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures.
Generalized uncertainty principle
The generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) is a proposed modification of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation that implies a minimal measurable length, usually of the order of the Planck length.
Generalized Verma module
The generalized Verma module, also called a parabolic Verma module, is a Lie algebra representation induced from a module over a parabolic subalgebra, generalizing the Verma module.
Generalized Wigner crystal
A generalized Wigner crystal is a quantum phase in which electrons form a regular charge lattice at fractional filling of a host lattice, typically a moiré superlattice.
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (United States)
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) are the accounting standards US public companies must follow in financial statements, set since 1973 by the Financial Accounting Standards Board under SEC oversight.
Generally Accepted Privacy Principles
Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP) are a voluntary privacy framework of ten principles and 73 criteria created by the AICPA and CICA, first published in 2003.
Generally recognized as safe
Generally recognized as safe (GRAS) is a U.S. FDA food-law exemption under the 1958 Food Additives Amendment allowing ingredients deemed safe by qualified experts to enter food without premarket approval; notification is voluntary, with a mandatory-notice rule proposed in 2026.
Generaloberst
Generaloberst (colonel general) was the second-highest German general rank in the Prussian, Imperial, Reichswehr and Wehrmacht armies, above General and below Generalfeldmarschall, equivalent to a US four-star General, and reused in the East German NVA as an OF-8 rank.
Generalplan Ost
Generalplan Ost (General Plan East) was the Nazi plan of 1940–1942, commissioned by Himmler and drafted by Konrad Meyer, to deport over 30 million Slavs to Siberia and resettle Eastern Europe with Germans.
Generare
Generare is a Paris-based biotechnology company that discovers novel small molecules by decoding microbial genomes; it raised a €20 million Series A in April 2026.
Generate Capital
Generate Capital is a San Francisco-based sustainable infrastructure investment company, founded in 2014, that builds, finances, owns, and operates distributed energy and resource assets across North America.
Generația 80
Generația 80, the '80 Generation or "jeans generation," is an informal Romanian literary group that debuted in the mid-1980s, centered on the Cenaclul de Luni circle and led by Mircea Cărtărescu.
Generating function
A generating function, also called an ordinary generating function, is a power series whose coefficients encode a number sequence, so the whole sequence can be handled as one algebraic object.
Generating function transformation
A generating function transformation systematically converts one generating function, or the sequence of coefficients it encodes, into another, ranging from elementary operations to the binomial and Stirling transforms.
Generation
Generation, in kinship, is the level of descent shared by relatives of the same degree, also a demographic cohort of roughly 30 years. It underlies generational (Hawaiian) kinship terminology, Kirchhoff's generation principle, and alternate-generation equations.
Generation (2021 TV series)
Genera+ion (Generation) is a 2021 HBO Max teen dramedy created by Daniel and Zelda Barnz with executive producer Lena Dunham, following queer high schoolers in Anaheim; 16 episodes, cancelled September 2021, later moved to Tubi.
Generation (particle physics)
A generation in particle physics, also called a family, is one of three sets of matter particles, each with two quarks and two leptons; all stable matter is first-generation.
Generation Alpha
Generation Alpha (Gen Alpha) is the cohort born roughly 2010–2024 after Gen Z, coined by Mark McCrindle; over 2 billion people, the first all-21st-century, smartphone-native generation, followed by Generation Beta.
Generation Beta
Generation Beta (Gen Beta) is the proposed cohort after Generation Alpha, born 2025–2039 under Mark McCrindle's definition; ~2.1 billion projected, mostly children of Gen Z, not formally adopted by Pew.
Generation Bio
Generation Bio Co., formerly Torus Therapeutics, was a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotechnology company that developed non-viral, redosable genetic medicines and was acquired by XOMA Royalty in February 2026.
Generation for Modernity and Development
Generation for Modernity and Development (GMD) is a Guinean political coalition led by President Mamady Doumbouya. It won the 2025 presidential election and 90 of 147 seats in 2026.
Generation gap
Generation gap: differences in values and attitudes across age groups or birth cohorts. Term peaked in the 1960s; US survey gaps narrowed 1973-1997; research attributes differences to age and period effects, not distinct generations.
Generation Germany
Generation Germany (Generation Deutschland, GD) is the AfD's youth organization, founded 29 November 2025 in Gießen to replace the dissolved, extremist-classified Young Alternative; led by Jean-Pascal Hohm, open to members under 36, and legally part of the AfD.
Generation IV reactor
A Generation IV reactor is a fourth-generation nuclear fission reactor design chosen by the Generation IV International Forum for collaborative development, targeted for deployment around 2030.
Generation Jones
Generation Jones, or Gen Jones, is a cohort born in the Western world roughly between 1954 and 1965, positioned between Baby Boomers and Generation X and named by Jonathan Pontell.