specific
IPA: spʌsˈɪfɪk
noun
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
- Specification
- (in the plural) The details; particulars.
adjective
- explicit or definite.
- (bioscience, taxonomy) pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- special, distinctive or unique.
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
- (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- (physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
- (physics) 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)
- (physics) 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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Examples of "specific" in Sentences
- The specific context is the economics.
- It is not the date of a specific issue.
- The specification of the car was basic.
- Try to be more specific and clear, if you can.
- The specifics of adaptation are in the future.
- The specification defines the inputs and outputs.
- Specific details of Monteriano unfold in the course of the novel.
- Why change terminology from the clear specific, to the hazy general
- Arlo described this clip at great length and in impressively granular detail, at times recreating specific paw thrusts and parries.
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