Unlike so many industrial technologies - railroads, say, or the telegraph - the stored-program computer is a general-purpose tool, animated by software, a medium without material constraints.

But general-purpose tools - able to do anything they have to.

A PC is a general-purpose tool.

Here you have a general-purpose tool that has all sorts of potential for abuses.

It was designed as a general-purpose tool for processing unrestricted text that could be the basis of a wide variety of applications.

Macrofocus' products can be used to graphically explore large and complex datasets, with InfoScope being a general-purpose tool.

A few general-purpose tools will come in handy here.

Your answers will dictate the contents of your tool kit - over and above the essential general-purpose tools described earlier.

Apart from these specialist tools, you will also need to borrow general-purpose tools from other sections of your tool kit for many plumbing projects.

These knives were general-purpose tools, designed for cutting and shaping wooden implements, scraping hides, preparing food, and for other utilitarian purposes.