universal applicability
collocation in Englishmeaningsofuniversalandapplicability
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universal
adjective
uk/ˌjuː.nɪˈvɜː.səl/us/ˌjuː.nəˈvɝː.səl/
existing everywhere or ...
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applicability
noun[U]
uk/əˌplɪk.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ˌæ.plɪk.əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the fact of affecting or relating to a person ...
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(Definition ofuniversalandapplicabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This variability means that no single approach to tick control will haveuniversalapplicability.
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Therefore, this is mainly the interpretation of our specific data set, and it is not a general statement with claims ofuniversalapplicability.
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Theuniversalapplicabilityof improvement gave way to a much narrower interpretation of culture that emphasized equally both aspiration and hard work.
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To reflect the varying nature of context and to ensure auniversalapplicabilityof context-aware systems, context is typically represented at different levels of abstraction.
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Smith argues that, whereas sociology claims to haveuniversalapplicability, it is in fact grounded in the experiences of men.
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There is a tacit assumption that employment models and indeed the related psychosocial factors have auniversalapplicability, but this may be far from the truth.
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But we should not be doctrinaire about theuniversalapplicabilityof this principle.
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Are there adequate existing international standards ofuniversalapplicability?
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I feel that theuniversalapplicabilityof the code is a fundamental feature of it which must be retained.
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I am sceptical about theuniversalapplicabilityof that.
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There are difficulties —some of them fairly obvious—with setting out a provision like this which hasuniversalapplicability.
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Proponents of virtue theory sometimes respond to this objection by arguing that a central feature of a virtue is its "universalapplicability".
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It also hasuniversalapplicabilityas a source-independent naming convention for oligomers.
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Both claimeduniversalapplicabilityand rejected the other's.
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Expert elicitation tends to be multidisciplinary as well as interdisciplinary, with practicallyuniversalapplicability, and is used in a broad range of fields.
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Itsuniversalapplicabilityis seen as doubtful.
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Various expressions of this fundamental moral rule are to be found in tenets of most religions and creeds through the ages, testifying to itsuniversalapplicability.
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