universe

1. Everything under consideration.

2. Everything under consideration.Examples: "In general content-related evidence demonstrates the degree to which the sample of items, tasks or questions on a test is representative of some defined universe or domain of content."

3. Everything under consideration.

4. An imaginary collection of worlds; the general imaginary world within which a work of fiction takes place, broader than its immediate setting.Examples: "Annabelle Comes Home (the 7th and most recent movie in the Conjuring universe, and the 3rd to focus on Annabelle) is a direct sequel to both previous Annabelle movies, which occurred before the events of The Conjuring – but take place after the events of the 2013 franchise-starter."

5. (pantheism) A deity who is equivalent to the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.Examples: "The universe wants you to succeed."

6. (archaic) The Earth, the sphere of the world.Examples: "Under our new World may alſo be compriſed thoſe vaſt Southern Coaſts and Streights of Magelan, firſt lighted on by Ferdinandus Magelanus in the year 1520, in his Circumnavigation of the Univerſe ; which forty five years after Sir Francis Drake, and next Sir Thomas Bendiſh, Engliſhmen, made a furhter inſpection into ; and in the Year 1600 Oliver van Noord a Hollander paſt, but of later years a Spaniard, Fedinand de Quier, out-ſhot them all by a more ample Diſcovery then all the former."archaic