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Universe
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Universe
A group of securities, assets or anything else with similar characteristics. One may consider, for example, a universe of stocks in the same industry. Universes are useful when comparing one data point to others in order to maintain control over systematic factors.

Universe. In the world of investments, the word universe refers to a specific group or category of investments that share certain characteristics.

A universe might be the stocks that are included in a particular index, the stocks evaluated by a particular analytical service, or all the stocks in a particular industry.
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For it, the universe of discourse makes the whole of speech acts signifying as a system.
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Technically, the business domain being modeled is called the universe of discourse (UoD), since it is the universe (or world) that we are interested in discoursing (or talking) about.
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Though undoubtedly spiritual, Merici does not fit into the same universe of discourse as Teresa of Avila.
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