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universal

English

🔊 adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations
“universal wrench”
🔊 applicable to or common to all members of a group or set
“the play opened to universal acclaim”
🔊 of worldwide scope or applicability
“an issue of cosmopolitan import”
🔊 a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings
“some form of religion seems to be a human universal”
🔊 (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class
🔊 (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages
🔊 coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions
“in motor vehicles a universal joint allows the driveshaft to move up and down as the vehicle passes over bumps”