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general-purpose | Business English

general-purpose
adjective
uk /ˈdʒenərəlˌpɜːpəs/ us /-ˌpɝː-/
able to be used for many different purposes:
We should stop trying to turn the general-purpose PC into a specialized entertainment device.

Examples of general-purpose

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Then, tuple centres can be conceived as general-purpose coordination artifacts, which can be customized (programmed, tuned) dynamically to entail a specific coordinating behaviour.
Nonetheless, some decision rules for mate choice would have been sufficiently general-purpose that they may well have become encoded genetically.
This is how the analyst can understand how a composer adapted a general-purpose language to the specific needs of the work.
In addition to general-purpose governments, a host of other organizations may undertake the provision of collective goods.
Examples and comparisons of the reinvention of patented inventions are presented and discussed, and a new patentable general-purpose controller described.
The other assumes that there is a general-purpose control mechanism that instantiates task goals and modulates lexical output appropriately.
In so doing, we expect that the size of the variational space will be kept reasonably small, contrary to general-purpose basis sets.
Therefore, a special-purpose computer can incorporate a greater number of processors onto a single chip, compared with a general-purpose computer.
One type of arrangement establishes what is called general-purpose government jurisdictions.
Alternatively, some general-purpose approximation network might be used as a generalised nonlinearity.
A general-purpose semantic lexicon will not contain the specialized medical jargon and terminology that are required for medical information processing.
Note that ret-pt registers, being no different from parameter registers, are available for general-purpose use inside the procedure body.
There are obvious limits to the abilities of any general-purpose pretty printer to deal with user-defined types or with large aggregate data structures.
Instead, scores of "quick change" attachments to general-purpose equipment found a place in their mills.
But such inferences need not be manifestations of any sort of general-purpose inference engine.
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