perfume
essence | a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor |
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 |
kernel
substance core
center
centre
essence
gist
heart heart and soul
inwardness marrow
meat
nub
pith
sum
nitty-gritty f a e a c | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, the gist of the prosecutor's argument, the heart and soul of the Republican Party, the nub of the story |
| 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 |
effect
essence
burden
core
gist | the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work |
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 |
| essence | any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted |
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 |
all-important(a)
all important(p)
crucial
essential
of the essence(p) | of the greatest importance, the all-important subject of disarmament, crucial information, in chess cool nerves are of the essence |
in principle
in theory in essence | with regard to fundamentals although not concerning details, in principle, we agree |