Universal is the adjective for universe. Universal may also refer to:

Companies

* NBCUniversal, a media and entertainment company ** Universal Animation Studios, 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 Netw ...

, 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 joint ...

, an American current television channel, formerly known as Sprout, owned by NBCUniversal ** Universal Pictures, an American film studio, and a subsidiary of NBCUniversal ** Universal Television, 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 par ...

, the theme park unit of NBCUniversal * Universal Airlines (disambiguation) *

Universal Avionics Universal Avionics Systems Corporation, also known as Universal Avionics, is an international company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona in the United States. It primarily focuses on flight management systems (FMS) and cockpit instrument displays fo ...

, a manufacturer of flight control components * Universal Corporation, an American tobacco company * Universal Display Corporation, a manufacturer of displays * Universal Edition, a classical music publishing firm, founded in Vienna in 1901 * Universal Entertainment Corporation, 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. Since its beginnings, the company has produced complete watches with in-house movements, and throughout the 20th century, distributed many notable and impor ...

, a Swiss watch company * Universal Gym Equipment *

Universal Helicopters Universal Helicopters was a commercial helicopter company located in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. While operating primarily in Newfoundland and Labrador with operations sometimes extending into the Ungava Peninsula and the Arctic, Univer ...

, a commercial helicopter company *

Universal Magazines Universal Magazines (now Universal Media Co.) is an Australian publisher of magazines, websites, and calendar products that cater to niche markets. Prema Perera is currently CEO of the company. In 2018, Universal Magazines rebranded as Unive ...

, an Australian publisher of magazines and websites * Universal Music Group, 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 trus ...

** Universal Records (defunct record label), 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 ...

, 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. H ...

, 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. X ...

, 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 network of its type. See also *Media of Somalia * Somali National Television *Shabelle Media Network *Somali Broadcas ...

, a Somali television station * Universal Uclick, 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 owne ...

, 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", 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 statement that applies to all languages

Technology and devices

HTC Universal The HTC Universal is a Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC PDA manufactured by High Tech Computer Corporation. It was the first 3G/UMTS-enabled Pocket PC PDA with a telecommunications function, and also the first to come with Windows Mobile 5.0 pr ...

, 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 m ...

, a slitter rewinder for roll slitting

Other uses

Universal (act) Universal ( pl, Uniwersał; uk, Універсал) 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 and later also by U ...

, 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) U is the twenty-first letter of the Latin alphabet. U may also refer to: Science Mathematics * \cup, union (set theory) * U-set, a set of uniqueness * U, the unitary group Chemistry * Uranium, symbol U, a chemical element * u, the Dalton (un ...

, "Universal" media content rating