Betekenis

• Adj

  1. explicit or definite.
  2. pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
  3. special, distinctive or unique.
  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.
  6. being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
  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)

• Noun