(business) All the risks that could affect an entity.

(theology) The idea, particularly in Christianity, that an opportunity to follow the deity, e.g. Jesus, will be an option at the time of death.

(philosophy, metaphysics) A universe in which all of the actions of matter and energy operate as reactions according to predetermined rules set down by a creator, like the movements of a clock.

plural of clockwork universe

A measure of time that conforms, within a close approximation, to the mean diurnal rotation of the Earth and serves as the basis of civil timekeeping.

Referring to a perspective or view from the real world, in contrast to a perspective from within the fictional world.

plural of risk universe

A religion which encourages theological liberalism and an individual search for truth and the adherents of which draw on many different theological sources and have a wide range of beliefs and practices.

A coupling that allows different parts of a machine not in line with each other some freedom of movement at the same time as transmitting rotary motion.

(uncountable) A branch of mathematics dealing with equational classes of algebras, where similar theorems from disparate branches of algebra are unified.