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universal grinders

universal grinders is the plural of universal grinder.

Meaning of universal grinder

Noun

universal grinder (plural universal grinders)

  1. A notional mechanism whereby countable nouns are made uncountable.
    • Consider a machine, the “universal grinder”. This machine is rather like a meat grinder in that one introduces something into one end, the grinder chops and grinds it up into a homogeneous mass and spews it onto the floor from its other end. The difference between the universal grinder and a meat...1975 October, F[rancis] Jeffry Pelletier, “Non-singular Reference: Some Preliminaries”, in Philosophia, volume 5, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Springer [for Bar-Ilan University], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Questions about universal grinders

What is universal grinders the plural of?
Universal grinders is the plural of universal grinder.

Words near universal grinders in the dictionary

  1. universal donors
  2. Universal Friends
  3. universal grammar
  4. universal grammars
  5. universal grinder
  6. universal grinders
  7. universal instrument
  8. universal instruments
  9. universal joint
  10. universal joints
  11. universal jurisdiction

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