General-purpose explained

General-purpose may refer to:

General-purpose technology
General-purpose alternating current, AC electric power supply
General-purpose autonomous robots
General-purpose heat source

Law and government

General-purpose administrative subdivision
General-purpose criterion, in international law
General-purpose district

Military

A popular false etymology for the Willys MB "Jeep"
General-purpose bomb
General-purpose machine gun
General-purpose mask, M50 Joint-Service
General-purpose vessel, Explorer class in the Royal Australian Navy

Computing

General-purpose computer
General-purpose DBMS
General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU)
General-purpose input/output (GPIO)
General-purpose macro processor
General-purpose markup language
General-purpose modeling
General-purpose operating system
General-purpose macro processor or general-purpose preprocessor
General-purpose programming language
General-purpose register
General-Purpose Serial Interface (GPSI)

See also