UNIVERSAL
\jˌuːnɪvˈɜːsə͡l], \jˌuːnɪvˈɜːsəl], \j_ˌuː_n_ɪ_v_ˈɜː_s_əl]\
Definitions of UNIVERSAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
By Princeton University
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Universally.
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Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world.
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Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine.
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Forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient.
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The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.
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A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.
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A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.
By Oddity Software
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Universally.
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Pertaining to the whole system of created things; general; entire; prevailing everywhere.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world.
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Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine.
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Forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient.
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The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.
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A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.
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A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.
By Noah Webster.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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All; general; comprehending the whole number, quantity or space; total; whole; comprising all. Universal joint, a contrivance for giving motion obliquely to certain instruments. Universal proposition, one which affirms the predicate to belong to the whole of the subject.
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A general notion; a universal proposition.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Embracing or comprehending the whole; general; all; comprising all the particulars.
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In logic, a general abstract conception universally applicable to each individual or species contained under it.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. A general abstract conception, so called form being universally applicable o or predicable of each individual or species contained under it; --a universal preposition, or one in which the subject is taken in its widest extent, and the predicate applies to every thing which the subject can denote.
