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.
But such inferences need not be manifestations of any sort of general-purpose inference engine.
Instead, scores of "quick change" attachments to general-purpose equipment found a place in their mills.
There are obvious limits to the abilities of any general-purpose pretty printer to deal with user-defined types or with large aggregate data structures.
Note that ret-pt registers, being no different from parameter registers, are available for general-purpose use inside the procedure body.
A general-purpose semantic lexicon will not contain the specialized medical jargon and terminology that are required for medical information processing.
Alternatively, some general-purpose approximation network might be used as a generalised nonlinearity.
One type of arrangement establishes what is called general-purpose government jurisdictions.
Therefore, a special-purpose computer can incorporate a greater number of processors onto a single chip, compared with a general-purpose computer.
