specific.
Explicit or definite.
Meaning & usage
Explicit or definite.
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.
a highly specific test
specific and nonspecific symptoms
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.
Any improvement in secondary sciatica is probably due to the analgesic action of the sodium salicylate, but in primary sciatica, in all likelihood “rheumatic,” the effect of the sodium salicylate appears to be specific rather than symptomatic.
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).
Where this word comes from
From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind”) + -ific.
A distinguishing attribute or quality.
A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
Specification.
The details; particulars.
The distinguishing part of a toponym.
Where this word comes from
From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind”) + -ific.
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