General-purpose may refer to:
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General-purpose technology
General-purpose technologies (GPTs) are technologies that can affect an entire economy (usually at a national or global level). GPTs have the potential to drastically alter societies through their impact on pre-existing economic and social structur ...
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General-purpose alternating current, AC electric power supply
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General-purpose autonomous robots
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General-purpose heat source
The general-purpose heat source is a U.S. DOE-designed radioactive heat source for radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTG) or Stirling radioisotope generators (SRG). It is meant for space applications and is packaged as a stackable module.
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Law and government
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General-purpose administrative subdivision
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General-purpose criterion
General-purpose may refer to:
* General-purpose technology
* General-purpose alternating current, AC electric power supply
* General-purpose autonomous robots
* General-purpose heat source
Law and government
* General-purpose administrative su ...
, in international law
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General-purpose district
Military
* A popular false etymology for the
Willys MB "Jeep"
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General-purpose bomb
A general-purpose bomb is an air-dropped bomb intended as a compromise between blast damage, penetration, and fragmentation in explosive effect. They are designed to be effective against enemy troops, vehicles, and buildings.
Characteristics ...
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General-purpose machine gun
* General-purpose mask,
M50 Joint-Service
* General-purpose vessel,
Explorer class in the Royal Australian Navy
Computing
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General-purpose computer
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations ( computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These pro ...
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General-purpose DBMS
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General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU)
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General-purpose input/output (GPIO)
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General-purpose macro processor
A general-purpose macro processor or general purpose preprocessor is a macro processor that is not tied to or integrated with a particular language or piece of software.
A macro processor is a program that copies a stream of text from one place ...
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General-purpose markup language
A general-purpose markup language is a markup language that is used for more than one purpose or situation. Other, more specialized domain-specific markup languages are often based upon these languages. For example, HTML 4.1 and earlier are domai ...
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General-purpose modeling
General-purpose modeling (GPM) is the systematic use of a general-purpose modeling language to represent the various facets of an object or a system. Examples of GPM languages are:
* The Unified Modeling Language (UML), an industry standard for m ...
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General-purpose operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also in ...
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General-purpose macro processor
A general-purpose macro processor or general purpose preprocessor is a macro processor that is not tied to or integrated with a particular language or piece of software.
A macro processor is a program that copies a stream of text from one place ...
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preprocessor
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General-purpose programming language
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General-purpose register
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General-Purpose Serial Interface
General-Purpose Serial Interface, also known as GPSI, 7-wire interface, or 7WS, is a 7 wire communications interface. It is used as an interface between Ethernet MAC and PHY blocks.
Data is received and transmitted using separate data paths (TX ...
(GPSI)
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General (disambiguation)
A general is a high-ranking military officer.
General or Generals may also refer to:
Companies and organizations
* General Airconditioners, a Japanese air-conditioning company
* General Electric, an American multinational conglomerate company ...
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Purpose (disambiguation)
Purpose is the end for which something is done, created or for which it exists. It is part of the topic of intentionality and goal-seeking behavior.
Related concepts and subjects:
* Goal, a desired result or possible outcome
* Intention, the stat ...
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Jeep (disambiguation)
Jeep — ''with a capital J'' — is a trademarked automotive brand, currently owned by Chrysler (officially FCA US LLC), part of Stellantis.
Jeep or jeep may also refer to:
Jeep-like vehicles
Vehicle concepts
* Four-wheel drive vehicles in ge ...
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GP (disambiguation)
Gp or GP may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Gaming
* Gameplanet (New Zealand), a New Zealand video game community
* GamePolitics.com, a blog about the politics of computer and video games
* ''GamePro'', a monthly video game magazine
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