universality
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universality
[‚yü·nə·vər′sal·əd·ē] (statistical mechanics)
The hypothesis that the critical exponents of a substance are the same within broad classes of substances of widely varying characteristics, and depend only on the microscopic symmetry properties of the substance.
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