universal class

American  

noun

Logic.

1. (in the theory of classes) the class that includes all other classes and is composed of all individuals composing these classes.

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universal class British  

noun

1. (in Boolean algebra) the class containing all points and including all other classes

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Example Sentences

Usage of the library’s Universal Class database for online courses and continuing education boomed by 139%.

From Washington Times

He’s curious how North American moviegoers will receive it, with its universal class themes and culturally specific details — like the failed Taiwanese castella shop Ki-taek once ran, the frictions of modern South Korean socioeconomics, or the “ramdon,” a rendition of a jjapaguri instant noodle dish that centers one of the film’s most virtuosic suspense sequences.

From Los Angeles Times

How astonishing, a career that perfectly accompanied, was enabled by, the great post-war Bildungsroman, by which the white American middle class fooled itself into thinking it was the only game in town, a universal class and the end of history, the axis of the globe, only to discover its every last prerogative draining off in the eighties.

From Slate

Another website, Universal Class, offers self-paced basic drawing, painting and design classes online for under $100.

From US News

In a weird way, this most status-obsessed of conferences is also the best at creating a universal class of status-seekers.

From New York Times