Universal

Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.

Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world.

Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine.

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.

The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.

A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.

A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.

(logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class

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"

(linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages