Definition of generative
: having the power or function of generating, originating, producing, or reproducing
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The murder is what gave birth to the society in the first place: its generative event.
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Juričić worked with Arup to develop the shape, which was created with generative algorithms that use parameters like the room’s shape, the archetypal form of Mediterranean pergolas, and desired porosity to inform the pergola’s final form.
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The system uses a two-part AI algorithm called a generative adversarial network (GAN).
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The company’s realism comes in part from a technique recently trendy in machine-learning circles called generative adversarial networks, which can create photo-realistic images.
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Jamison is interested in something else: the possibility that sobriety can form its own kind of legend, no less electric, and more generative in the end.
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The tenets of the ancients give his works gas: Nature is generative; painting aims not to depict it, but to embody it.
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The meaning is called out of this generative mixture.
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But the vineyard heartbreak has been generative, too, forcing Edmunds toward new terroir.
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First Known Use of generative
14th century
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medical Definition of generative
: having the power or function of propagating or reproducing
- generative organs
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