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Meaning of universal

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  universal
      adj 1: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of
             cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and
             ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley;
             "universal experience" [syn: {cosmopolitan},
             {ecumenical}, {oecumenical}, {general}, {universal},
             {worldwide}, {world-wide}]
      2: applicable to or common to all members of a group or set;
         "the play opened to universal acclaim"; "rap enjoys universal
         appeal among teenage boys"
      3: adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations;
         "universal wrench", "universal chuck"; "universal
         screwdriver"
      n 1: (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic
           feature) that is found in all languages [syn: {universal},
           {linguistic universal}]
      2: (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members
         of a class [syn: {universal}, {universal proposition}] [ant:
         {particular}, {particular proposition}]
      3: 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"
      4: 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" [syn: {universal joint},
         {universal}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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