specific
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America, British) IPA: /spəˈsɪf.ɪk/, /spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
specific
- explicit or definite
- (sciences) Pertaining to a species.
- 2008, Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, Oxford 2009, p. 3:
- Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name.
- 2008, Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, Oxford 2009, p. 3:
- (taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon 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.
- a highly specific test, specific and nonspecific symptoms
- being a remedy for a particular disease
- Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
- (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)
- (explicit) express, monosemous, unambiguous; see also Thesaurus:explicit
- (special, distinctive or unique) singular; see also Thesaurus:unique
- (intended for a particular thing) peculiar, singular; see also Thesaurus:specific
- unspecific, nonspecific
- (intended for a particular thing) broad, general, generic, universal; see also Thesaurus:generic
- Portuguese: específico
- Russian: я́вный
- Spanish: específico
- Portuguese: específico
- Russian: видово́й
- Portuguese: específico
- Russian: осо́бенный
- Portuguese: específico
- Russian: специа́льный
- Portuguese: específico
- Spanish: específico
- Russian: удельный
- Russian: относительный
specific (plural specifics)
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
- 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
- I had no unreasonable fear of bats, […] yet I knew them too for carriers of the dread “Hydrophobia,” for which there was no specific.
- 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
- Specification
- (in the plural) The details; particulars.
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