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Specific   /spəsˈɪfɪk/  /spɪsˈɪfɪk/   Listen
Specific

adjective
1.
(sometimes followed by 'to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique.  "Demands specific to the job" , "A specific and detailed account of the accident"
2.
Stated explicitly or in detail.
3.
Relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species.
4.
Being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides.  "A specific remedy" , "A specific stain is one having a specific affinity for particular structural elements"
noun
1.
A fact about some part (as opposed to general).  Synonym: particular.
2.
A medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease.



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"Specific" Quotes from Famous Books



... booming and the news of its prosperity had spread. Settlers were hurrying toward it from the Middle West to take up homesteads and desert claims in the surrounding country. There was no specific reason why the town should boom, but it did boom in that mysterious fashion which far western towns have, up to a certain stage, after which ...
— The Lady Doc • Caroline Lockhart
... repugnant odor; it varies in color from yellow to black; and its specific gravity ranges from about 0.80 to 1.00, but commonly is between 0.80 and 0.90. Its chemical constitution is chiefly of carbon and hydrogen, in the approximate ratio of about six to one respectively. It is a mixture of paraffin hydrocarbons having the general formula of C{n}H{2n2} ...
— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh
... the German Universities. There is no definite curriculum connected with them. They cover a wide range of subjects, each candidate making her selection, and preparing herself for examination in one or more specific subjects, and, if successful, receives a certificate of proficiency in those, except that certain subjects must be passed before a certificate is awarded ...
— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett
... farther explanation. But we cannot refuse to allow that plant-cells as well as animal-cells have psychic functions, since we know that the phenomena of irritability, and of "automatic motion," are the universal attributes of all protoplasm. No doubt the specific mechanism, the cause of motion, in the irritable Mimosa and other "sensitive" plants, is quite different from the muscular motions of animals; but these, like those, are only specifically different forms of development of the "cell-soul," and both proceed from ...
— Freedom in Science and Teaching. - from the German of Ernst Haeckel • Ernst Haeckel
... operation of such technology protection measure during any use of such computers by minors." CIPA Sec. 1721(b) (codified at 47 U.S.C. Sec. 254(h)(6)(B)). CIPA defines a "technology protection measure" as "a specific technology that blocks or filters access to visual depictions that are obscene, . . . child pornography, . . . or harmful to minors." CIPA Sec. 1703(b)(1) (codified at ...
— Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


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