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noun(linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages
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noun(logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class
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"in motor vehicles a universal joint allows the driveshaft to move up and down as the vehicle passes over bumps"nouncoupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions
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"universal experience"adjectiveof worldwide scope or applicability
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"some form of religion seems to be a human universal"nouna behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beingstype of:
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"universal wrench" "universal chuck" "universal screwdriver"adjectiveadapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations
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"the play opened to universal acclaim" "rap enjoys universal appeal among teenage boys"adjectiveapplicable to or common to all members of a group or set
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- c the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second
- r (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin per mole
- g (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation
- ra ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the king of the gods
- hippies a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music
- realist a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them
- gyro rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
- ert the coordinated universal time when an event is received on Earth
- gyroscope rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
- hipsters a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music