The phrase "a general meaning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the overall or broad interpretation of a concept, term, or statement.
Example: "In this context, we are looking for a general meaning that encompasses the main ideas without getting into specifics."
Alternatives: "an overall interpretation" or "a broad understanding".
A general meaning is "the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and recovery quickly".
Hugh Stephenson: Last month again saw one of those instances where a word has a general meaning in common usage, as well as its technical one.
This has a general meaning of "a series of military battles during a phase of a war," and in the case of the current semi-rubblization process, a specific meaning of the sustained NATO bombing campaign.
In this study, we use the term "precipitation" in a general meaning of downgoing flux in the atmosphere.
We have also seen that there is a likely link between the Sinitic 'grain' and the Burmic 'japonica rice' terms, perhaps with a general meaning 'grain'.
A concept such as photosynthesis will have ascribed to it a general meaning for the purposes of school science, for example: 'photosynthesis is the process whereby green plants convert carbon dioxide and water into useful carbohydrates using energy from sunlight, producing oxygen as a waste by-product'.
Terms and attributes with a too big granularity - i.e. terms and attributes describing certain characteristics on such a narrow level so that classification systems contain only a term of a more general meaning (e.g. symmetrical pulse of carotids, etc).. Terms and attributes, which cannot be found in classification systems, e.g. dyslipidemy, etc.
Justice Antonin Scalia responded that the symbol in the context of a war memorial carried a more general meaning.
Can you choose a word that has a less general meaning?
However, the word 'singularity' has a more general meaning in our case because we do not need all components of the nonlinear term (f t,u)) to be singular at the origin as those in [5, 6].
The term gradually gained a more general meaning of growth or progressive development.
