In metaphysics, a universal is what particular things have in common, namely characteristics or qualities.

An FBI researcher has suggested that voyeurs are likely to demonstrate some characteristics that are common, but not universal, among serious sexual offenders who invest considerable time and effort in the capturing of a victim ( or image of a victim ); careful, methodical planning devoted to the selection and preparation of equipment ; and often meticulous attention to detail.

Universal grammar offers a solution to the poverty of the stimulus problem by making certain restrictions universal characteristics of human languages.

Many supervillains share some typical characteristics of real world dictators, mobsters, and terrorists and often have aspirations of world domination or universal leadership.

James Francis Ross in Portraying Analogy ( 1982 ), the first substantive examination of the topic since Cajetan's De Nominum Analogia, demonstrated that analogy is a systematic and universal feature of natural languages, with identifiable and law-like characteristics which explain how the meanings of words in a sentence are interdependent.

One of the almost universal characteristics of a military government is the institution of martial law or a permanent state of emergency.

Further, he found in the Christian revelation the same characteristics as belonged to the universal revelation involved in conscience, viz., God's sovereign initiative and his living action in history.

Montessori saw universal, innate characteristics in human psychology which her son and collaborator Mario Montessori identified as " human tendencies " in 1957.

As Glazer would later recall, " one of the characteristics of group was a notion of its universal competence ... culture, politics, whatever was happening we shot our mouths off on ... It was a model created by the arrogance that if you ’ re a Marxist you can understand anything and it was a model that even as we gave up our Marxism we nevertheless stuck with.

In fact, de Waal does not believe these tendencies to be restricted to humans and apes, but views empathy and sympathy as universal mammalian characteristics, a view that over the past decade has gained support from studies on rodents and other mammals, such as dogs.

According to these authors, virtually universal characteristics of cranks include:

It emphasizes gratitude for nature, the family, ancestors and, above all, religious faith in one universal God, inheriting its basic characteristics from Buddhism, Christianity and Shintoism.

Purpose clause topological mapping aims to explain the universal conceptual characteristics of morphosyntactic coding in the communicative functions, as well as the cognitive-psychological mechanisms involved in the use.

The relationship of the above-mentioned Neolithic characteristics to the onset of agriculture, their sequence of emergence, and empirical relation to each other at various Neolithic sites remains the subject of academic debate, and seems to vary from place to place, rather than being the outcome of universal laws of social evolution.

Predicate logic could be seen as a modern system with some of these universal characteristics, at least as far as mathematics and computer science are concerned.

Due to its unique characteristics, a biosignature can be interpreted as having been produced by living organisms ; however, it is important that they not be considered definitive because there is no way of knowing in advance which ones are universal to life and which ones are unique to the peculiar circumstances of life on Earth.

The general drift of such works is to pull the abstract, universal language and thought of Japan's foreign models down to earth, to reframe it in Japanese conditions, among the illiterate population at large, and assert the special historical characteristics of Japan as opposed to the civilizations which had, until that time, endowed the country with the lineaments of a universalist culture.

They were essentially a tender version of the standard 4 2-6-4T, with similar characteristics to the GWR Manor Class, though unlike the Manors they were built to the universal loading gauge.

She found, for example, a universal occurrence of shovel-shaped upper incisors and a near-complete absence of Carabelli's cusp on upper molars — characteristics consistent with other Amerindians and inconsistent with Europeans.

This universal property also makes G < sub > 0 </ sub >( R ) the ' universal receiver ' of generalized Euler characteristics.

# God only knows the universal characteristics of particulars-namely Platonic forms.

The United Nations defines civil registration as " the continuous, permanent, compulsory and universal recording of the occurrence and characteristics of vital events pertaining to the population as provided through decree or regulation in accordance with the legal requirements of a country.

Some critics claim that although these abilities are common they are not universal characteristics of the species.

After the first democratic elections with universal suffrage in 1948, in which the Christian Democracy and their allies won against the Popular front of the Italian Communist and Socialists parties, the communist party never returned in the government.

The most conventional steering arrangement is to turn the front wheels using a hand – operated steering wheel which is positioned in front of the driver, via the steering column, which may contain universal joints ( which may also be part of the collapsible steering column design ), to allow it to deviate somewhat from a straight line.

The steering column was changed to a two-piece design with universal joint, lessening the danger of intrusion during a front end collision.

Standard features of all Maybach models include, but are not limited to, a navigation system with voice recognition, air conditioning with 4-zone climate controls, power rear sunshade, rear-seat DVD entertainment system, interior air filter, front and rear seat massage, 21-speaker premium sound system, power tilt / telescopic heated wood / leather-wrapped steering wheel with radio and climate controls, power trunk open / close, voice-activated AM / FM radio with 10-disc CD changer, keyless start, heated front and rear seats, cooled front seats, power panoramic sunroof, adaptive cruise control, premium leather upholstery, 18-way power front seats, 14-way power rear seats, heated cupholders, rearview camera, iPod adapter, wireless cell phone link, outside-temperature indicator, universal garage door opener, and night vision.

Standard features of all models include, but are not limited to: a navigation system with voice recognition ; air conditioning with 4-zone climate controls ; power rear sunshade ; rear-seat DVD entertainment system ; interior air filter ; front and rear seat massage ; 21-speaker premium sound system ; power tilt / telescopic heated wood / leather-wrapped steering wheel with radio and climate controls ; power trunk open / close ; voice-activated AM / FM radio with 10-disc CD changer ; keyless start ; heated front and rear seats ; cooled front seats ; power panoramic sunroof ; adaptive cruise control ; premium leather upholstery ; 18-way power front seats ; 14-way power rear seats ; heated cupholders ; rearview camera ; iPod adapter ; wireless cell phone link ; outside-temperature indicator ; universal garage door opener ; night vision.

Cave paintings suggest a wide dark band between the front and hind legs, but the feature is not universal, and identification of pictured rhinoceroses as woolly rhinoceros is uncertain.

Wallonia has a parliament ( one chamber with 75 members elected for five years by direct universal suffrage ) and a government responsible in front of the parliament.

These competitions uncovered that the front drive universal joint was prone to break under heavy stress, so in 1976 the Corcel line switched to constant-velocity joints.

Stabilizer bars were universal at front but model-dependent at rear.

Front-wheel drive continued with the 1948 Citroën 2CV, where the air-cooled lightweight aluminium flat twin engine was mounted ahead of the front wheels, but used Hookes type universal joint driveshaft joints, and 1955 Citroën DS, featuring the mid-engine layout.

A formula is said to be if it is an existential statement in prenex normal form ( all quantifiers at the front ) with alternations between existential and universal quantifiers applied to a quantifier free formula.

The relative movement between the wheels and the differential is achieved through the use of swinging driveshafts connected via universal ( U ) joints, analogous to the constant-velocity ( CV ) joints used in front wheel drive vehicles.

Early front wheel drive systems such as those used on the Citroën Traction Avant and the front axles of Land Rover and similar four wheel drive vehicles used universal joints, where a cross-shaped metal pivot sits between two forked carriers.

As front wheel drive systems became more popular, with cars such as the BMC Mini using compact transverse engine layouts, the shortcomings of universal joints in front axles became more and more apparent.

Upscale options included a power moonroof, a universal garage door opener, an electrochromic rearview mirror ( which filters out headlight glare from other vehicles behind the Navigator ), a seven speaker, 290-Watt audio system with a six-disc front console-mounted CD-changer, rear seat audio controls, and 17-inch alloy wheels.

The universal form of Narayana is mentioned in the Maha Narayana Upanisad as " Om sahasra sreesam devam vishwakhyam vishwa sambhubam, viswam Narayana devam aksharam paramam padam " meaning, the universal form of Narayana has thousands of heads, eyes, limbs and he is the indestructible seed whose feet are the ultimate shelter for all.

A universal joint, universal coupling, U-joint, Cardan joint, Hardy-Spicer joint, or Hooke's joint is a joint or coupling in a rigid rod that allows the rod to ' bend ' in any direction, and is commonly used in shafts that transmit rotary motion.

* A universal joint, U joint or Cardan joint, a joint in a rigid rod that allows the rod to ' bend ' in any direction