General-purpose may refer to: *

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 ...

* General-purpose alternating current, AC electric power supply * General-purpose autonomous robots *

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. ...

Law and government

* General-purpose administrative subdivision *

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 *

General-purpose district A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

Military

* A popular false etymology for the Willys MB "Jeep" *

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 ...

* General-purpose machine gun * General-purpose mask, M50 Joint-Service * General-purpose vessel, Explorer class in the Royal Australian Navy

Computing

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 ...

General-purpose DBMS In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases s ...

* General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) * General-purpose input/output (GPIO) *

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

or general-purpose preprocessor * General-purpose programming language * General-purpose register * General-Purpose Serial Interface (GPSI)

Law and government

Military

Computing

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