specific

Meaning

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

1. A distinguishing attribute or quality.
2. A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
3. Specification
4. The details; particulars.

Concepts

specific

particular

special

concrete

definite

peculiar

precise

exact

certain

characteristic

fixed

proper

unique

individual

drug

especial

very

distinctive

generic

tribal

tangible

extraordinary

uncommon

unusual

distinct

limited

respective

separate

express

spec

representative

specific nature

special,

expert

chaplain

private

privy

determinate

obligate

obligative

professional

specialized

technical

single-order

compare

proportion

ratio

endemic

such and such

idiosyncratic

circumstance

detail

accurate

clear

relative

specified

given

typical

original

singular

specify

Hyphenated as

spe‧cif‧ic

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/

Etymology

From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind”) + faciō (“make”).

Sentences

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