(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.)

(set theory) A set large enough to contain all sets under consideration in the current context.

A UK university offering distance learning taught courses to people without formal academic qualifications, teaching being by correspondence and online with mostly optional tutorials and for some courses compulsory summer schools. Access to postgraduate research is selective and is primarily taught on campus using traditional methods.

(idiomatic, chiefly UK and Ireland) The real world as a source of instruction, as opposed to a formal education.

(business) All the risks that could affect an entity.

Alternative spelling of red brick university

(theology) The idea, particularly in Christianity, that an opportunity to follow the deity, e.g. Jesus, will be an option at the time of death.

A measure of time that conforms, within a close approximation, to the mean diurnal rotation of the Earth and serves as the basis of civil timekeeping.

Referring to a perspective or view from the real world, in contrast to a perspective from within the fictional world.

plural of clockwork universe