Universal (disambiguation)

Universal or universality may refer to:
*universality (philosophy), meaning present in all places and all times (for example, a universal proposition is a proposition affirming a property of all the members of a collection).
*linguistic universal, a statement which applies to all languages.
*universalism, properties of universality in concepts or application.

And also:
* Universality (dynamical systems)
* Universality (theory of computation)
*computationally universal, an abstract machine or programming language which has a computational power equivalent to a universal Turing machine.
*universal property, a term used in various branches of mathematics.
** universal algebra

Universal is finally the name of:
*universal binary, a software product works on both Intel and PowerPC processors on Macintosh computers.
*Universal Corporation, traded under symbol "UVV" on the New York Stock Exchange.
*Universal Studios (owned by the parent company NBC Universal).
*Universal Music (owned by the parent company Vivendi Universal).
*Universal Airlines
*Universal Helicopters
*Universal (game company), a video game company primarily active in the 1980s.

Universal is also the meaning of the Greek katholikos, from which catholicism etymologically derives.

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