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Universal

adjective

1.

Of worldwide scope or applicability. Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, world-wide, worldwide. "The shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time" , "Universal experience"

2.

Applicable to or common to all members of a group or set. "Rap enjoys universal appeal among teenage boys"

3.

Adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations. "Universal chuck" , "Universal screwdriver"

noun

1.

(linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages. Synonym: linguistic universal.

2.

(logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class. Synonym: universal proposition.

3.

A behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings.

4.

Coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions. Synonym: universal joint.

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"Universal" Quotes from Famous Books

... so, Major Kennedy, but both our civil and military systems are rotten to the core. There are, of course, honest men in both services, but as a rule corruption is almost universal. Still, although he cannot fear me as he must fear you, it is possible he may endeavour to make himself safe by removing me also from his path; and for a time I shall take good care to remain in my own barracks, ...

— In the Irish Brigade - A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain • G. A. Henty

... houses were admirably suited to company billets. Occupiers dismantled the ground floor front and took in three, and generally four men at various rates. On the 2nd of October a universal rate of 9d. a day each man was fixed. That made twenty-one shillings a week towards paying off a rent which would average at the most twelve shillings. The billets delighted us, and we hope the owners were as pleased. We thank them ...

— The Fifth Leicestershire - A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, - T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. • J.D. Hills

... man; in others there was a striking regularity. The typical holding, the group of scattered acres cultivated by one man or held by some two or three in common, was known as a "virgate," or by some equivalent term, and although of no universal equality, was more frequently of thirty acres than of any other number. Usually one finds on a given manor that ten or fifteen of the villagers have each a virgate of a given number of acres, several more have each a half virgate or a quarter. Occasionally, ...

— An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England • Edward Potts Cheyney

... is a busy one, the never finished grinding of corn by the use of the primitive metate and mano taking much time, and the universal woman's task of bearing and rearing children and providing meals and home comforts accounting for most of ...

— The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi • Hattie Greene Lockett

... concerned, correspond very closely in final results with those in the Hemiptera heteroptera and the Orthoptera. In minor details these chromosomes are less peculiar in the Coleoptera than in either of the other orders. Even condensation during the growth stage is not universal, and synapsis of the heterochromosomes apparently occurs simultaneously with that of the ordinary chromosomes, instead of being delayed, as in many of ...

— Studies in Spermatogenesis - Part II • Nettie Maria Stevens

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