Universal is the adjective for

universe The universe is all of space and time and their contents. It comprises all of existence, any fundamental interaction, physical process and physical constant, and therefore all forms of matter and energy, and the structures they form, from s ...

. Universal may also refer to:

Companies

NBCUniversal NBCUniversal Media, LLC (abbreviated as NBCU and Trade name, doing business as NBCUniversal or Comcast NBCUniversal since 2013) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational mass media and Show business, entertainment conglomerate (comp ...

, a media and entertainment company that is a subsidiary of Comcast **

Universal Animation Studios Universal Animation Studios LLC, formerly known as Universal Cartoon Studios, is an American animation studio and a division of Universal 1440 Entertainment, an home entertainment division of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, which in tur ...

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

Universal TV Universal TV, formerly Universal Channel, is an international pay television network specializing in movies and television series in the thriller, drama, comedy, horror, crime and investigation genres, owned by NBCUniversal International Netwo ...

, a television channel owned by NBCUniversal **

Universal Kids Universal Kids was an American children's cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The channel launched on September 26, 2005, as PBS Kids Sprout, a preschool-oriented offshoot of ...

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

Universal Pictures Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios or simply Universal), is an American filmmaking, film production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered at the 10 Universal Ci ...

, 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 division of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming#Universal Studio Group, Universal Studio Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which, in turn, is ...

, a television division owned by NBCUniversal Content Studios **

Universal Destinations & Experiences Universal Destinations & Experiences (UDX), formerly Universal Parks & Resorts, is the theme park unit of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The company, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, operates Universal theme parks and resort propert ...

, 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 an Austrian classical music publishing firm. Founded in 1901 in Vienna, it originally intended to provide the core classical works and educational works to the Austrian market. The firm soon expanded to become one of t ...

, a classical music publishing firm, founded in Vienna in 1901 *

Universal Entertainment formerly known as and Universal, is a Japanese manufacturer of pachinko, slot machines, arcade games and other gaming products, and a publisher of video games. Aruze possesses licenses to both manufacture and distribute casino machines in the ...

, a Japanese software producer and video game producer *

Universal Genève Universal Genève SA is a Swiss luxury watch company, founded in 1894 as Universal Watch. It is a subsidiary of Breitling SA. Since its beginnings, the company has produced complete watches with in-house movements. Along with neighboring Geneva ...

, a Swiss watch company * Universal Gym Equipment * Universal Helicopters, a commercial helicopter company *

Universal Magazines Universal Media Co. (formerly Universal Magazines) is an Australian publisher of magazines, website A website (also written as a web site) is any web page whose content is identified by a common domain name and is published on at least o ...

, an Australian publisher of magazines and websites *

Universal Music Group Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Netherlands, Dutch–United States, American multinational Music industry, music corporation under Law of the Netherlands, ...

, a family of record labels **

Universal Music India Universal Music India Pvt. Ltd. (UMI) was launched in 1999; it is a part of the Universal Music Group, an American-based, Dutch-listed multinational music corporation. Universal Music India is registered with the Indian Music Industry, a tru ...

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

, 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 Philippine record label founded in 1977 as part of Warner Music Group. It has been an independent label since 1992. The label is currently a member of the Philippine Association of the Record Indust ...

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

Universal Robina Universal Robina Corporation, abbreviated as URC and also known as Universal Robina, is a Philippine company headquartered in Quezon City. It is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the Philippines, along with San Miguel Corporat ...

, a food and beverage company in the Philippines *

Universal Stereo XHFO-FM (92.1 FM, "Radio Disney") is a radio station in Mexico City Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous ...

, a radio station * Universal Studios, Inc., American media and entertainment conglomerate *

Universal Television (Somalia) Universal Television is a Somali television channel. Established in 2005 with its studio in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and London, England, United Kingdom, it is the first and largest Somali TV satellite network of its type. The Somaliland polic ...

, 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 oth ...

, 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 owner ...

, an aviation products and services company

Music

Groups

Universal (group) 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 ma ...

, 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 * ''Universal'', a 1993 album by

K-Klass K-Klass are a Welsh/English electronic music group from Wrexham, Wales and Chester, England, who are based in Manchester, England. Its original members were Andy Williams, Carl Thomas, Russ Morgan and Paul Roberts. In 1991, K-Klass signed with ...

Songs

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The Universal "The Universal" is a song by English alternative rock band Blur (band), Blur and is featured on their fourth studio album, ''The Great Escape (Blur album), The Great Escape'' (1995). It was released on 13 November 1995 by Food Records, Food and ...

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

Cultural, religious, 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 ...

Universality (philosophy) Universalism is the Philosophy, philosophical and Theology, theological concept within Christianity that some ideas have Universal (metaphysics), universal application or applicability. A belief in one fundamental truth is another important t ...

Universalizability The concept of universalizability was set out by the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant as part of his work '' Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals''. It is part of the first formulation of his categorical imperative, which states ...

Christian universalism Christian universalism is a school of Christian theology focused around the doctrine of universal reconciliation – the view that all human beings will ultimately be saved and restored to a right relationship with God. "Christian universalism" ...

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 *

History of Christian universalism The doctrine of Christian universalism has been rejected by most mainstream Christian churches, which tend to maintain at least the possibility that many will not be saved, but it has received support from many prestigious Christian thinkers as w ...

International Council of Unitarians and Universalists The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU) was an umbrella organization founded in 1995 comprising many Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist organizations. It was dissolved in 2021 along with the Unitaria ...

* Linguistic universal, a statement that applies to all languages *

Moral universalism Moral universalism (also called moral objectivism) is the meta-ethical position that some system of ethics, or a universal ethic, applies universally, that is, for "all similarly situated individuals", regardless of culture, race, sex, reli ...

* Primitive Baptist Universalist * Trinitarian universalism, a variant of belief in universal salvation, the belief that every person will be saved, that also held the Christian belief in Trinitarianism *

Universalism and the Latter Day Saint movement Christian universalism was a theology prevalent in the early United States coinciding with the founding of the Latter Day Saint movement (also known as Mormonism) in 1830. Universalists believed that God would save all of humanity. Universalism p ...

Universalist Church of America The Universalist Church of America (UCA) was originally a Christian Universalist religious denomination in the United States (plus affiliated churches in other parts of the world). Known from 1866 as the Universalist General Convention, the nam ...

Unitarian Universalism Unitarian Universalism (abbreviated UUism or UU) is a liberal religious tradition characterized by its commitment to theological diversity, inclusivity, and social justice. Unitarian Universalists do not adhere to a single creed or doctrine. I ...

, a liberal religion characterized by a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning" *

Universal value A value is a universal value if it has the same value or worth for all, or almost all, people. Spheres of human value encompass morality, aesthetic preference, traits, human endeavour, and social order. Whether universal values exist is an un ...

Technology and devices

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

slitter Roll slitting is a shearing operation that cuts a large roll of material into narrower rolls. There are two types of slitting: log slitting and rewind slitting. In log slitting the roll of material is treated as a whole (the 'log') and one or mo ...

, a slitter rewinder for roll slitting

Other uses

Universal (act) Universal (; ; ) is a historic term that means an official proclamation or legal act. In several historic periods Universals were issued in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by the Polish, Lithuanian and later also by Ukrainian authorities. ...

, a type of official or legal proclamation *

Universal basic income Universal basic income (UBI) is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a minimum income in the form of an unconditional transfer payment, i.e., without a means test or need to perform Work (hu ...

Universal basic services Universal basic services (UBS) is an idea of a form of social security in which all citizens or residents of a community, region, or country receive unconditional access to a range of free, basic, public services, funded by taxpayers and provided ...

Universal design Universal design is the design of buildings, products or environments to make them accessible to people, regardless of age, disability, or other factors. It emerged as a rights-based, anti-discrimination measure, which seeks to create design ...

Universal property In mathematics, more specifically in category theory, a universal property is a property that characterizes up to an isomorphism the result of some constructions. Thus, universal properties can be used for defining some objects independently fro ...

, a property of some existence problems in category theory * Universal, Indiana, a small town in the United States * Universal (Esperantido), a constructed language * Universal, a Russian nickname for a

station wagon A station wagon (American English, US, also wagon) or estate car (British English, UK, also estate) is an automotive Car body style, body-style variant of a Sedan (automobile), sedan with its roof extended rearward over a shared passenger/cargo ...

car *

U rating (disambiguation) U, or u, is the twenty-first letter of the English alphabet. U may also refer to: Science Mathematics * \cup, union (set theory) * U-set, a set of uniqueness * U, the unitary group Chemistry * Uranium Uranium is a chemical element; it h ...

, "Universal" media content rating