specific
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
noun
1. A distinguishing attribute or quality.
2. A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
3. Specification
4. (in the plural) The details; particulars.
adjective
1. Explicit or definite
2. Pertaining to a species.
3. Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
4. Special, distinctive or unique
5. Intended for, or applying to, a particular thing
6. 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"
7. Being a remedy for a particular disease
"Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria."
8. Limited to a particular antibody or antigen
9. Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
10. 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)
11. 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)
Synonyms
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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