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gen·er·al knowl·edge

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. public knowledge, general knowledgenoun

    knowledge that is available to anyone

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  1. general knowledgenoun

    The wide body of information that a person acquires from education and from life; not all of it has practical use

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  1. General knowledge

    General knowledge is information that has been accumulated over time through various mediums. It excludes highly specialized learning that can only be obtained with extensive training and information confined to a single medium. General knowledge is an important component of crystallized intelligence. It is strongly associated with general intelligence and with openness to experience.Studies have found that people who are highly knowledgeable in a particular domain tend to be knowledgeable in many. General knowledge is thought to be supported by long-term semantic memory ability. General knowledge also supports schemata for textual understanding.

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  1. general knowledge

    General knowledge refers to the information and understanding of various aspects of life, society, culture, environment, science, and other areas that are not specialized or deeply technical, which people generally acquire over time through education, experiences, and learning processes. It constitutes an essential element of learning, comprehension, and intelligence.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of general knowledge in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of general knowledge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of general knowledge in a Sentence

  1. John Adams:

    Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.


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