u|ni|verse

u|ni|verse
u|ni|verse «YOO nuh vurs», noun.
1. Also, Universe. the whole of existing things; everything there is; cosmos, especially: a) the whole of reality, as the creation of the Deity: »

She had…The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe (Byron). Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality (Walt Whitman).

b) the whole of observed or hypothesized physical reality; physical universe: »

Our world is but a small part of the universe. The Egyptian's conception of the universe was…anthropomorphic: the goddess of the heavens, Nut, arched her starry body over the solid Earth and let the ship of the Sun glide over her back (Rudolf Thiel).

2. the world, especially as the abode of mankind; earth: »

Who all our green and azure universe Threatenedst to muffle round with black destruction (Shelley).

3. Mathematics, Logic. the set of all objects being considered at one time. The universe might be the set of all natural numbers, the numbers from 0 through 10, all animals, or the animals on a farm. Abbr: U (no period).
4. Statistics. the total number of items from which a sample is selected; population.
[< Latin ūniversum, (originally) adjective, whole, turned into one, neuter of ūniversus < ūnus one + vertere to turn]

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