universal joint
universal | 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 |
| universal suffrage | suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country |
| universal | 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 |
| universal quantifier | a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts that the proposition is true for all members of a class of things |
bar code
Universal Product Code | code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser, printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information |
URL
uniform resource locator
universal resource locator | the address of a web page on the world wide web |
universal
universal proposition | (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class |
| universal linguistic universal | (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages |
| universal set | (mathematics) the set that contains all the elements or objects involved in the problem under consideration, all other sets are subsets of the universal set |
universal agent
general agent | someone authorized to transact every kind of business for the principal |
| universal donor | a person whose type O Rh-negative blood may be safely transfused into persons with other blood types |
| universal veil | membrane initially completely investing the young sporophore of various mushrooms that is ruptured by growth, represented in the mature mushroom by a volva around lower part of stem and scales on upper surface of the cap |
gas constant
universal gas constant
R | (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume R times temperature, equal to . joules per kelvin per mole |
gravitational constant
universal gravitational constant
constant of gravitation
G | (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation |
alkahest
alcahest
universal solvent | hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists |
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Time
GMT
universal time
UT
UT | the local time at the
meridian passing through Greenwich, England, it is the same everywhere |
coordinated universal time
UTC | Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds |
cosmopolitan
ecumenical
oecumenical
general
universal
worldwide
world-wide | of worldwide scope or applicability, an issue of cosmopolitan import, the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time- Christopher Morley, universal experience |
| universal | adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations, universal wrench, universal chuck, universal screwdriver |
| universal | 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 |