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Universal Soldier (1992 film)
Universal Soldier (1992) is a Roland Emmerich sci-fi action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren as Vietnam soldiers reanimated as cyborg UniSols; it grossed $36.3 million domestically on a $23 million budget and spawned a sequel franchise.
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) is John Hyams' sixth Universal Soldier film, a psychological-horror action sequel starring Scott Adkins, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Dolph Lundgren, released limitedly by Magnolia Pictures.
Universal Soldier: The Return
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999) is a sci-fi action film directed by Mic Rodgers, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Luc Deveraux fighting the rogue supercomputer S.E.T.H. (Michael Jai White); a box-office failure, 5% on Rotten Tomatoes, later retconned from the series.
Universal Space Network
Universal Space Network was an American commercial satellite ground station network founded in 1996 by Pete Conrad, commander of Apollo 12 and third man on the Moon.
Universal Studios Beijing (北京环球影城)
Universal Studios Beijing (北京环球影城) is the theme park of Universal Beijing Resort in Tongzhou, opened 20 September 2021; China's first, Asia's third, and the largest Universal park, with seven lands, 37 rides, Kung Fu Panda and Transformers firsts, and TEA-reported attendance rising from 4.3 million in 2022 to 9.775 million in 2024.
Universal Studios Florida
Universal Studios Florida is the original Universal Orlando theme park, opened June 7, 1990 as a $600 million studio-theme park. Known for Diagon Alley, screen-based rides, live shows, and 9.5 million 2024 visitors.
Universal Studios Hollywood
Universal Studios Hollywood, in Universal City, Los Angeles, is a working film studio and movie-based theme park opened in 1964 around the Studio Tour, with CityWalk, Wizarding World, Super Nintendo World, and Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift.
Universal Studios Japan (ユニバーサル・スタジオ・ジャパン)
Universal Studios Japan (ユニバーサル・スタジオ・ジャパン) is a Comcast NBCUniversal-owned theme park in Osaka, opened March 2001; home of SUPER NINTENDO WORLD (2021) and the world's first Donkey Kong Country area (December 11, 2024), with about 16 million annual visitors.
Universal Studios Singapore
Universal Studios Singapore (USS) is a 20-hectare movie theme park in Resorts World Sentosa on Sentosa Island, opened March 2010 as Universal's fourth park worldwide and Southeast Asia's first, with seven themed zones, Battlestar Galactica dueling coasters, and Minion Land added in 2025.
Universal suffrage
Universal suffrage: the principle that all adult citizens can vote regardless of sex, property, race, literacy, or status; grounded in UDHR Article 21 and ICCPR Article 25, expanded historically from male property franchises to full adult suffrage.
Universal Television
Universal Television (UTV), NBCUniversal's flagship scripted television production studio under Universal Studio Group, traces to MCA Revue Studios and produces Law & Order, One Chicago, Hacks, and The Office.
Universal testing machine
A universal testing machine (UTM), also called a tensometer or universal tester, applies controlled force to a specimen and measures load, producing the material's stress-strain curve.
Universal Thermal Climate Index
The Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) is an equivalent temperature that folds air temperature, humidity, wind, and radiation into one measure of heat stress on the body, released in 2009.
Universal Time
Universal Time (UT) is a family of time scales based on Earth's rotation, approximating mean solar time at Greenwich; in current usage it means UT1 or UTC.
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system
Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), a plane coordinate grid based on the Transverse Mercator projection: 60 zones of 6 degrees longitude, eastings from a 500,000 m false easting, northings from the equator, used by GPS/GNSS, USGS maps, and NATO's MGRS.
Universal Turing machine
A universal Turing machine is a Turing machine that can simulate any other Turing machine given its encoding and input, described by Alan Turing in 1936.
Universal United Kingdom
The Universal United Kingdom Resort is a planned theme park and resort developed by Comcast NBCUniversal. Located at Kempston Hardwick near Bedford, it aims to open in 2031.
Universal value
Universal value: a value holding the same worth for all or most people, central to moral universalism and value theory. Key figures include Joseph Raz on value universality and Shalom Schwartz on basic values; contested by moral disagreement and aesthetic diversity.
Universal Verification Methodology
Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) is a SystemVerilog class library and methodology for building reusable verification environments for digital hardware designs, standardized as IEEE 1800.2 and developed by Accellera.
Universal Windows Platform
Universal Windows Platform, also known as Windows UWP, is a Windows application model introduced with Windows 10 that lets one app package run across PCs, Xbox, and HoloLens.
Universal Wrestling Federation (Japan)
Universal Wrestling Federation (Japan), UWF, was a Tokyo-based shoot-style pro wrestling promotion founded by Hisashi Shinma in 1984, revived as Newborn UWF 1988–1990 under Akira Maeda, and ancestral to UWFi, RINGS, Pancrase, and Pride FC.
Universal Zulu Nation
Universal Zulu Nation: international hip hop awareness organization founded November 12, 1973 in the Bronx by Afrika Bambaataa; motto peace, love, unity, having fun; knowledge as fifth element; fractured by 2016 abuse allegations.
Universalism
Universalism is any doctrine claiming validity for everyone, spanning moral universalism behind human rights, the universalism-particularism cultural dimension of Trompenaars, communitarian critiques of Rawls, international-law paradigms, and Christian universalism (Origen's apokatastasis).
Universality class
A universality class is a set of microscopically different systems sharing the same critical exponents and scaling functions at a continuous phase transition, such as fluids and magnets.
Universality of measurement-based quantum computation
Universality of measurement-based quantum computation is the property of a resource state that allows arbitrary quantum computations using only single-qubit measurements and classical processing of outcomes.
Universally unique identifier
A universally unique identifier (UUID), also known as a globally unique identifier (GUID), is a 128-bit label whose algorithm makes collisions very unlikely without central registration.
Universe
The universe, also known as the physical universe, is all of space, time, matter, and energy, roughly 13.8 billion years old and expanding at an accelerating rate.
Universe Championships
Universe Championships: the Mr. Universe bodybuilding titles, first held 1948 (won by John Grimek) and run by NABBA since 1950 (first winner Steve Reeves); Arnold Schwarzenegger won four times.
Universe League
Universe League (유니버스 리그) was SBS's 2024–2025 boy group survival audition, sequel to Universe Ticket. 42 contestants in teams Rhythm, Groove, Beat competed for the Prism Cup; Team Rhythm won and debuted as AHOF.
Universe of Star Wars
Universe of Star Wars: the fictional transmedia galaxy of the Star Wars franchise, a used space-opera setting spanning the Force, films, Legends canon split of 2014, and ongoing Story Group continuity.