specific

1. 1

   Explicit or definite.

   • While some participants, like Gabi and Jasmine, had access to a gym but still felt uncertain about using specific types of equipment, others who trained at home faced even greater challenges due to the absence of both a coach and proper equ
2. 2

   Pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.

   • Holonyms: generic, familial
   • Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific
3. 3

   Special, distinctive or unique.in-compoundssometimes

   • A psychologist told WJLA TV that, for the most part, this isn’t a Cocomelon-specific issue. The main issue is too much screen time and children's shows with fast-paced sequences.
4. 4

   intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.

5. 5

   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
6. 6

   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.
7. 7

   Limited to a particular antibody or antigen.

8. 8

   Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy).

9. 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. 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).

syn. monosemous · unambiguous · singular · concrete · discrete · individual · particular · proper · specific · peculiar

ant. unspecific · nonspecific · broad · general · generic · universal · all-purpose · general-purpose

1. 1

   A distinguishing attribute or quality.

2. 2

   A remedy for a specific disease or condition.

   • Change of scene, and a new lover, are infallible specifics, always supposing there is no character for constancy to be supported: if I witness the violent sorrow of to-day, I impose upon to-morrow the necessity of being sorry also.
   • A compound of spurge, cardamom, cinnamon of Mecca, pellitory, ginger, nettle seed is an Arab specific for sexual weakness.
3. 3

   Specification.

4. 4

   The details; particulars.in-plural

5. 5

   The distinguishing part of a toponym.

   • With the exception of names of pan-Canadian significance and some alternate forms approved by provincial authorities, the specific is not translated.