Generative
adjective
Something that originates or causes creation.
His ideas had a generative influence on the project.
Often appears as...
- generative idea
- generative influence
adjective
In language, it refers to a theory that explains how sentences or other structures are formed in the mind.
Generative grammar is a linguistic theory.
Often appears as...
- generative grammar
- generative linguistics
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Academic
adjective
In biology, related to the production of offspring or cells.
The generative part of the flower is the stamen.
Often appears as...
- generative cells
- generative reproduction
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Scientific
adjective
In computing, referring to programs or systems that generate something by themselves.
We need a more generative A.I system for this task.
Often appears as...
- generative programming
- generative system
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Technical
adjective
Something that originates or causes creation.
His ideas had a generative influence on the project.
Often appears as...
- generative idea
- generative influence
adjective
In language, it refers to a theory that explains how sentences or other structures are formed in the mind.
Generative grammar is a linguistic theory.
Often appears as...
- generative grammar
- generative linguistics
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
In biology, related to the production of offspring or cells.
The generative part of the flower is the stamen.
Often appears as...
- generative cells
- generative reproduction
Usage tips
Scientific
adjective
In computing, referring to programs or systems that generate something by themselves.
We need a more generative A.I system for this task.
Often appears as...
- generative programming
- generative system
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Idea Inducing
Use 'generative' to describe something that sparks new thoughts or creation.
The brainstorming session was highly generative.
Pro Tip 2/2Inspiring Action
'Generative' suggests something leads to practical outcomes, not just ideas.
Her generative plan resulted in a successful charity event.
Pro Tip 1/2Idea Inducing
Use 'generative' to describe something that sparks new thoughts or creation.
The brainstorming session was highly generative.
Pro Tip 2/2Inspiring Action
'Generative' suggests something leads to practical outcomes, not just ideas.
Her generative plan resulted in a successful charity event.
Pro Tip 1/2Idea Inducing
Use 'generative' to describe something that sparks new thoughts or creation.
The brainstorming session was highly generative.
Pro Tip 2/2Inspiring Action
'Generative' suggests something leads to practical outcomes, not just ideas.
Her generative plan resulted in a successful charity event.
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The benefits of...
and positive emotions, and the evidence suggests that daydreaming can help people envision ways to reach their goals and navigate relationships and social situations. Scientists think there may be two essential parts to this a generative phase of free-flowing ideas and spontaneous thoughts, courtesy of the default mode network,
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Demo: Stunning data...
very important for simulation in the nanoscaled sciences. For artists, we're making new worlds that we can uncover and explore. These generative algorithms grow over time, and they interact and communicate as a swarm of insects. Our researchers are interacting with this data
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A playful exploration of...
What we need to understand is that failing at gender can and should be a positive, generative process. The mistakes we make with gender can only help us grow and better understand the multitudes of gender around us. But we need to make space for these mistakes.
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Rethinking infidelity...
The fact is, the majority of couples who have experienced affairs stay together. But some of them will merely survive, and others will actually be able to turn a crisis into an opportunity. They'll be able to turn this into a generative experience.
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What really matters at...
rather than just less horrible. Beneficence. Here, this gets right at the distinction between a disease-centered and a patient- or human-centered model of care, and here is where caring becomes a creative, generative, even playful act.
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Anil Seth: How your...
In the part of the story we've touched on today, it's all about predictive processing, so the idea is that the brain really does encode within it a sort of predictive generative model of the causes of signals from the world,
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Thom Mayne: Architecture...
And those things are the reflection of the processes, and the time that they are made. And what I'm doing is attempting to synthesize the way one sees the world and the territories which are useful as generative material.
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Jennifer Pahlka: Coding...
And that means permissionless, it means open, it means generative. And that's important. But what's more important about this app is that it represents how a new generation is tackling the problem of government --
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Meklit Hadero: The...
He was saying that on its own, the environment is musically generative, that it is generous, that it is fertile, that we are already immersed.
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Experiencing art as...
job the easy part the generative art as an architect my medium is the physical world that's where actually I realized
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The benefits of...
and positive emotions, and the evidence suggests that daydreaming can help people envision ways to reach their goals and navigate relationships and social situations. Scientists think there may be two essential parts to this a generative phase of free-flowing ideas and spontaneous thoughts, courtesy of the default mode network,
Video examples
Demo: Stunning data...
very important for simulation in the nanoscaled sciences. For artists, we're making new worlds that we can uncover and explore. These generative algorithms grow over time, and they interact and communicate as a swarm of insects. Our researchers are interacting with this data
Video examples
A playful exploration of...
What we need to understand is that failing at gender can and should be a positive, generative process. The mistakes we make with gender can only help us grow and better understand the multitudes of gender around us. But we need to make space for these mistakes.
Video examples
Rethinking infidelity...
The fact is, the majority of couples who have experienced affairs stay together. But some of them will merely survive, and others will actually be able to turn a crisis into an opportunity. They'll be able to turn this into a generative experience.
Video examples
What really matters at...
rather than just less horrible. Beneficence. Here, this gets right at the distinction between a disease-centered and a patient- or human-centered model of care, and here is where caring becomes a creative, generative, even playful act.
Video examples
Anil Seth: How your...
In the part of the story we've touched on today, it's all about predictive processing, so the idea is that the brain really does encode within it a sort of predictive generative model of the causes of signals from the world,
Video examples
Thom Mayne: Architecture...
And those things are the reflection of the processes, and the time that they are made. And what I'm doing is attempting to synthesize the way one sees the world and the territories which are useful as generative material.
Video examples
Jennifer Pahlka: Coding...
And that means permissionless, it means open, it means generative. And that's important. But what's more important about this app is that it represents how a new generation is tackling the problem of government --
Video examples
Meklit Hadero: The...
He was saying that on its own, the environment is musically generative, that it is generous, that it is fertile, that we are already immersed.
Video examples
Experiencing art as...
job the easy part the generative art as an architect my medium is the physical world that's where actually I realized
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Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.
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Thom Mayne
American Architect
Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.
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Brian Eno
British Musician
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
German Composer
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
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Laurie Helgoe
American Psychologist
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.
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Rowan Williams
English Theologian
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
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Eileen Myles
American Poet
A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
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Walead Beshty
American Photographer
There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.
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Thom Mayne
American Architect
Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.
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Brian Eno
British Musician
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
German Composer
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
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Laurie Helgoe
American Psychologist
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.
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Rowan Williams
English Theologian
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
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Eileen Myles
American Poet
A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
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Walead Beshty
American Photographer
There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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