What does general-purpose mean?

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Adjective
  1. for general purposes; all-purpose
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In fairness, it's important to stress that general-purpose processors were designed for application-related computing.
They make up the profitable majority of the 144 million Americans who have general-purpose credit cards.
Up to 1884, the Old Bailey was a general-purpose criminal court for London and Middlesex.
That is not to say general-purpose functionality and real-time determinism cannot be achieved simultaneously.
An appliance is a device that provides a limited, well-defined function as compared to a general-purpose computer that can provide any function.
Solutions might include expanding into cabins or general-purpose areas to isolate sick campers from their healthy cabin mates.

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