0 a general-purpose product is used for many different things, rather than one particular thing:
a general-purpose PC
1 able to be used for many different purposes:
We should stop trying to turn the general-purpose PC into a specialized entertainment device.
Then, tuple centres can be conceived as general-purpose coordination artifacts, which can be customized (programmed, tuned) dynamically to entail a specific coordinating behaviour.
Nonetheless, some decision rules for mate choice would have been sufficiently general-purpose that they may well have become encoded genetically.
This is how the analyst can understand how a composer adapted a general-purpose language to the specific needs of the work.
In addition to general-purpose governments, a host of other organizations may undertake the provision of collective goods.
Examples and comparisons of the reinvention of patented inventions are presented and discussed, and a new patentable general-purpose controller described.
The other assumes that there is a general-purpose control mechanism that instantiates task goals and modulates lexical output appropriately.
In so doing, we expect that the size of the variational space will be kept reasonably small, contrary to general-purpose basis sets.
Therefore, a special-purpose computer can incorporate a greater number of processors onto a single chip, compared with a general-purpose computer.
