specific
/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/
Dictionary
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
- Pertaining to a species.
- 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."
- Limited to a particular antibody or antigen
- Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
- 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)
- 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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