(physics, cosmology) A hypothetical world situated in a different dimension of space and time than the real world consisting of the universe known and experienced by human beings.

Alternative form of alternate universe

(logic) The operator, represented by the symbol ∀, used in predicate calculus to indicate that a predicate is true for all members of a specified set.

(uncountable) A branch of mathematics dealing with equational classes of algebras, where similar theorems from disparate branches of algebra are unified.

plural of risk universe

A religion which encourages theological liberalism and an individual search for truth and the adherents of which draw on many different theological sources and have a wide range of beliefs and practices.

A coupling that allows different parts of a machine not in line with each other some freedom of movement at the same time as transmitting rotary motion.

(medicine) A person with blood type O, which lacks antigens and is therefore compatible with all other blood types, allowing them to donate blood to any other person.

plural of universal donor

(mathematics) The property of there being a unique morphism from an arbitrary object to the universal morphism of a comma category which is from a functor to a fixed object; or, dually, the property of there being a unique morphism from the universal morphism to an arbitrary object of a comma category which is from a fixed object to a functor. (Caveat: the uniqueness is up to isomorphism.)