general-purpose
/dʒɛn(ə)r(ə)lˈpəːpəs
/adjective
Having a range of potential uses or functions; not specialized in design: a general-purpose detergent...
- In fairness, it's important to stress that general-purpose processors were designed for application-related computing.
- An appliance is a device that provides a limited, well-defined function as compared to a general-purpose computer that can provide any function.
- Almost all programs use general-purpose function libraries that come with compilers.