specific

Meaning

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)

Frequency

Hyphenated as

spe‧cif‧ic

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spəˈsɪf.ɪk/

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

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workaround , we could use application specific profiles .

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