(chemistry) An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.

Popularly or widely. / As a rule; usually. / Without reference to specific details. / In the general case, without exception. / (obsolete) Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.

Noble in behaviour or actions; principled, not petty; kind, magnanimous. / Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed.

(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to. / (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process. / (transitive) To procreate, beget.

(military) The military officer title

(informal, medicine) Short for General Hospital. or "X General Hospital" (where X is a stand-in for another part of the name), a common hospital name.

An act or instance of generalizing; concluding that something true of a subclass is true of the entire class

plural of general

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of general

plural of generation