specific

/spษ™หˆsษชf.ษชk/
noun
  1. 1

    A distinguishing attribute or quality.

  2. 2

    A remedy for a specific disease or condition.

  3. 3

    Specification

  4. 4

    (in the plural) The details; particulars.

adjective
  1. 1

    Explicit or definite

  2. 2

    Pertaining to a species.

  3. 3

    Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species

  4. 4

    Special, distinctive or unique

  5. 5

    Intended for, or applying to, a particular thing

  6. 6

    Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.

    โ€œa highly specific test, specific and nonspecific symptomsโ€

  7. 7

    Being a remedy for a particular disease

    โ€œQuinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.โ€

  8. 8

    Limited to a particular antibody or antigen

  9. 9

    Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)

  10. 10

    Similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)

  11. 11

    A measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)

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