universal

(s) of worldwide scope or applicability
- an issue of cosmopolitan import
- "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley
- universal experience
ecumenical, oecumenical, cosmopolitan, worldwide, world-wide, general,
(s) 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
(s) adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations
- universal wrench", "universal chuck
- universal screwdriver

(n) (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages linguistic universal,
(n) (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class universal proposition,
(n) 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
(n) 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 joint,

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