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Definition of Specific

Specific
Specific Spe*cif"ic, n. 1. (Med.) A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3. His parents were weak enough to believe that the royal touch was a specific for this malady. --Macaulay. 2. Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied. --Dr. H. More.

Meaning of Specific from wikipedia

- Specific may refer to: Specificity (disambiguation) Specific, a cure or therapy for a specific illness Specific deterrence, focussed on an individual...
- Specificity may refer to: Being specific (disambiguation) Specificity (statistics), the proportion of negatives in a binary classification test which...
- Specific impulse (usually abbreviated Isp) is a measure of how efficiently a reaction m**** engine (a rocket using propellant or a jet engine using fuel)...
- Product Engineering Centre for Innovative Functional Industrial Coatings (SPECIFIC) is an academic and industrial consortium led by Swansea University, with...
- A domain-specific language (DSL) is a computer language specialized to a particular application domain. This is in contrast to a general-purpose language...
- The specific weight, also known as the unit weight, is the weight per unit volume of a material. A commonly used value is the specific weight of water...
- Specific performance is an equitable remedy in the law of contract, whereby a court issues an order requiring a party to perform a specific act, such...
- or specific gravity, is the ratio of the density (m**** of a unit volume) of a substance to the density of a given reference material. Specific gravity...
- In chemistry, specific rotation ([α]) is a property of a chiral chemical compound.: 244  It is defined as the change in orientation of monochromatic plane-polarized...
- the specific heat capacity (symbol cp) of a substance is the heat capacity of a sample of the substance divided by the m**** of the sample. Specific heat...