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Specific
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- 1 Explicit or definite.
"While some participants, like Gabi and Jasmine, had access to a gym but still felt uncertain about using specific types of equipment, others who trained at home faced even greater challenges due to the absence of both a coach and proper equipment."
- 2 Pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
"Holonyms: generic, familial"
- 3 Special, distinctive or unique. in-compounds, sometimes
"A psychologist told WJLA TV that, for the most part, this isn’t a Cocomelon-specific issue. The main issue is too much screen time and children's shows with fast-paced sequences."
- 4 intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- 5 Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
"a highly specific test specific and nonspecific symptoms"
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- 6 Being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
"Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria."
- 7 Limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- 8 Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy).
- 9 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)
- 10 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).
- 1 stated explicitly or in detail wordnet
- 2 (sometimes followed by ‘to’) applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique wordnet
- 3 being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides wordnet
- 4 relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species wordnet
- 1 A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- 2 a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease wordnet
- 3 A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
"Change of scene, and a new lover, are infallible specifics, always supposing there is no character for constancy to be supported: if I witness the violent sorrow of to-day, I impose upon to-morrow the necessity of being sorry also."
- 4 a fact about some part (as opposed to general) wordnet
- 5 Specification
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- 6 The details; particulars. in-plural
- 7 The distinguishing part of a toponym.
"With the exception of names of pan-Canadian significance and some alternate forms approved by provincial authorities, the specific is not translated."
Etymology
From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind”) + -ific.
From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind”) + -ific.
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