Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SPECIFIC
SPECIFIC
Definitions of SPECIFIC
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
- Specification
- explicit or definite.
- special, distinctive or unique.
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
- (bioscience, taxonomy) pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- (physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
- (physics) 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)
- (physics) 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)
- (in the plural) The details; particulars.
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
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