SPECIFIC

Specific

Specific may refer to: Specificity , Specific, a cure or therapy for a specific illness, Specific deterrence, focussed on an individual, Specific finding, intermediate verdict used by a jury in determining the final verdict, Specific jurisdiction over an out-of-state party, specific to cases that have a substantial connection to the party's in-state activity, Order of specific performance, court order to perform a specific act

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specific

Noun

  1. A distinguishing attribute or quality.
  2. Something particularly adapted for a particular use, as a remedy for a particular disorder
  3. Specification
  4. The details; particulars.

Adjective

  1. explicit or definite
  2. Pertaining to a species.
  3. pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
  4. special, distinctive or unique
  5. intended for, or applying to a particular thing
  6. being a remedy for a particular disease
    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)


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