Universal is the adjective for

universe The universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy. The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the universe. A ...

. Universal may also refer to:

Companies

NBCUniversal NBCUniversal Media, LLC is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate corporation owned by Comcast and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. NBCUniversal is primaril ...

, a media and entertainment company **

Universal Animation Studios Universal Animation Studios (formerly known as Universal Cartoon Studios) is an American animation studio and a division of Universal Pictures, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast. It has produced direct-to-video sequels to Un ...

, an American Animation studio, and a subsidiary of NBCUniversal ** Universal TV, a television channel owned by NBCUniversal **

Universal Kids Universal Kids is an American children's television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The channel launched on September 26, 2005, as PBS Kids Sprout, a preschool-oriented channel jointly op ...

, an American current television channel, formerly known as Sprout, owned by NBCUniversal **

Universal Pictures Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Americ ...

, an American film studio, and a subsidiary of NBCUniversal **

Universal Television Universal Television LLC (abbreviated as UTV) is an American television production company that is a subsidiary of Universal Studio Group, a division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. It serves as the network television production arm of NBC; a predec ...

, a television division owned by NBCUniversal Content Studios **

Universal Parks & Resorts Universal Parks & Resorts, also known as Universal Studios Theme Parks or solely Universal Theme Parks, is the theme park unit of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The company, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, operates Universal theme pa ...

, the theme park unit of NBCUniversal * Universal Airlines (disambiguation) * Universal Avionics, a manufacturer of flight control components * Universal Corporation, an American tobacco company * Universal Display Corporation, a manufacturer of displays *

Universal Edition Universal Edition (UE) is a classical music publishing firm. Founded in 1901 in Vienna, they originally intended to provide the core classical works and educational works to the Austrian market (which had until then been dominated by Leipzig-ba ...

, a classical music publishing firm, founded in Vienna in 1901 * Universal Entertainment Corporation, a Japanese software producer and video game producer * Universal Genève, a Swiss watch company * Universal Gym Equipment * Universal Helicopters, a commercial helicopter company *

Universal Magazines Universal Magazines (now Universal Media Co.) is an Australian publisher of magazines, website A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and publish ...

, an Australian publisher of magazines and websites *

Universal Music Group Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as just Universal Music) is a Dutch– American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum, Netherlands and its ...

, a family of record labels ** Universal Music India **

Universal Records (defunct record label) Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as just Universal Music) is a Dutch– American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum, Netherlands and its ...

, a record label owned by UMG, founded in 1995 *

Universal Recording Corporation Universal Recording Corporation was a recording studio in Chicago founded by Bill Putnam, Sr. for the purpose of investigating new recording techniques and the development of specialized recording equipment. Universal Recording was seminal i ...

, a Chicago recording studio founded in 1946 *

Universal Records (Philippines) Universal Records Philippines, Inc. is a Filipino record label founded in 1977 as part of Warner Music Group. Since 1992, it is an independent label. The label is currently a member of the Philippine Association of the Record Industry. Hi ...

, a record label in the Philippines, founded in 1977 *

Universal Stereo XHFO-FM is a radio station on 92.1 MHz in Mexico City. The station is owned by Grupo Siete and carries the Radio Disney pop format. History XHFO received its initial concession on November 26, 1964. It was owned by Raymundo Romero Damian. XHF ...

, a radio station *

Universal Television (Somalia) Universal Television is a Somali television channel. With its studio in London, it is the first and largest Somali TV satellite A satellite or artificial satellite is an object intentionally placed into orbit in outer space. Except for pass ...

, a Somali television station *

Universal Uclick Andrews McMeel Syndication (formerly Universal Uclick) is an American content syndicate which provides syndication in print, online and on mobile devices for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and cartoons and various other ...

, an American content syndicate (formed in 2009 merger of Universal Press Syndicate and Uclick) *

Universal Weather and Aviation Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc. (commonly called Universal or Universal Weather) is a privately held company headquartered in Houston, Texas that provides products and services for the general aviation industry. Its customers include owners ...

, an aviation products and services company

Music

Groups

Universal (band) Universal was an Australian-based boy band, from the 1990s. They released three singles on London Records with "Rock Me Good" and "Make It with You" both entering the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart in 1997. When the third single failed to make i ...

, a 1990s Australian boy band

Albums

* ''Universal'' (Borknagar album) * ''Universal'' (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album), 1996 * ''Universal'' (Troll album) * ''Universal'' (U.K. Subs album), 2002 * ''Universal'' (YFriday album), 2006

Songs

* "

The Universal "The Universal" is a song by English alternative rock band Blur and is featured on their fourth studio album, '' The Great Escape'' (1995). It was released on 13 November 1995 as the second single from that album, charting at number five on t ...

", a 1995 song by Blur * "The Universal" (Small Faces song), 1968 * "Universal" (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark song), 1996

Cultural and philosophical concepts

Universal (metaphysics) In metaphysics, a universal is what particular things have in common, namely characteristics or qualities. In other words, universals are repeatable or recurrent entities that can be instantiated or exemplified by many particular things. For exa ...

Cultural universal A cultural universal (also called an anthropological universal or human universal) is an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all known human cultures worldwide. Taken together, the whole body of cultural universals is known ...

, a trait common to all cultures *

Linguistic universal A linguistic universal is a pattern that occurs systematically across natural languages, potentially true for all of them. For example, ''All languages have nouns and verbs'', or ''If a language is spoken, it has consonants and vowels.'' Research ...

, a statement that applies to all languages

Technology and devices

* HTC Universal, a Pocket PC phone * The "Universal", an oxygen rebreather designed for use with the

Sladen Suit The Sladen Suit was a heavy type of British divers' drysuit made by Siebe Gorman. It is entered by a wide rubber tube at the umbilicus: this tube is folded and tied off before the diver dives. It was used by British manned torpedo riders and fo ...

* Universal slitter, a slitter rewinder for roll slitting

Other uses

* Universal (act), a type of official or legal proclamation * Universal, Indiana, a small town in the United States * Universal (Esperantido), a constructed language * Universal, a Russian nickname for a station wagon car * U rating (disambiguation), "Universal" media content rating