“Generalization” or “Generalisation”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 6 prefer “generalization” and 4 prefer “generalisation”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	generalization	generalisation	Preference
United States	100	0	“generalization”
United Kingdom	44	56	“generalisation”
India	79	21	“generalization”
Philippines	100	0	“generalization”
Canada	93	7	“generalization”
Australia	33	67	“generalisation”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	48	52	“generalisation”
New Zealand	36	64	“generalisation”
Jamaica	100	0	“generalization”
Trinidad & Tobago	100	0	“generalization”
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“generalization”

For example, a generalization of Gaussian elimination called Buchberger's…
…is an exception to the generalization that the obviative occurs in…
…be thought of as natural generalization of the well-known Poisson process.
…that they allow a strong generalization of Stokes' theorem.
…be thought of as a generalization of the Ising model.
Ikeda lift, a generalization to Siegel modular forms of…
Almost ring, a certain generalization of a commutative ring.
A generalization of weak interpretability, tolerance, was…
Hypergraphs are a generalization of graphs in which edges…
The model is a generalization of the capital asset pricing…

“generalisation”

…for demonstrating language vagueness, undue generalisation, conflation, pseudo-agreement and effective communication.
The error reduction is a generalisation of the Gerchberg–Saxton algorithm.
…archaeologists to focus on the generalisation of past societies into a…
The generalisation of the Tutte polynomial to…
…written in terms of a generalisation of the Levi-Civita symbol:
…Pearson–Cunningham function ωm,n(x) is a generalisation of a special function introduced…
…a graph, a kind of generalisation of graph components
This generalisation only becomes noticeable at dimensions…
…apparent that there was little generalisation to everyday situations.
…following may be an anecdotal generalisation: "After rehearsal he used to…

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