The phrase "a universal term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a word or phrase that has a meaning or application that is widely accepted or recognized across different contexts or cultures.
Example: "In scientific discussions, 'energy' is often considered a universal term that applies to various fields of study."
Alternatives: "a global term" or "a common term".
"Negro is a universal term, for me," he said.
Phenomenologists of religion who use the concept "sacred" as a universal term for the basis of religion differ in their estimation of the nature of the sacred manifestation.
The most effective of these was the German 88-millimetre Fliegerabwehrkanone; its abbreviated name, flak, became a universal term for antiaircraft fire.
It was after her that rose Pompadour was named in 1757; this was one of many new background colours developed at Sèvres, one of which, bleu de roi (c. 1757), has passed into the dictionary as a universal term.
The class of beings signified by a universal term of this sort is indeed prior to the universal term, e.g., the class of pale things to the universal term 'pale'pale
For example, the term 'man', in English is a universal term, because it is truly predicable of all men in one and the same sense, as opposed to the singular term 'Socrates', which in the same sense, i.e., when not used equivocally, is only predicable of one man.
Our next president could use the bully pulpit to empower our nation's best and brightest to create and implement this standard of online expectations, including things like encryption standards, privacy policy, or a universal Terms of Service agreement to replace the thousands we blindly agree to.
For example, the common term 'man' is a spoken or written universal term of English, because it is subordinated to that concept of our minds by which we conceive of each man indifferently.
By a proper choice of coordinates, a universal correction term is shown to be applicable to flow in essentially all practical field-flow fractionation (FFF) channels, which are characterized by a large aspect ratio.
Thirdly, if it is correct that rice was not first domesticated by speakers of Proto-ST or Proto-TB, one would not expect to find a universal reconstructable term.
(Indeed, the trial was largely responsible for making "Holocaust" the universal term for the genocide).
