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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...
- Specific gravity, also called relative density, is the ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a reference substance; equivalently, it is...
- Specific impulse (usually abbreviated Isp) is a measure of how effectively a rocket uses propellant or a jet engine uses fuel. Specific impulse can be...
- Product Engineering Centre for Innovative Functional Industrial Coatings (SPECIFIC) is an academic and industrial consortium led by Swansea University, with...
- The specific weight (also known as the unit weight) is the weight per unit volume of a material. The symbol of specific weight is γ (the Gr**** letter...
- A domain-specific language (DSL) is a computer language specialized to a particular application domain. This is in contrast to a general-purpose language...
- In thermodynamics, the specific volume of a substance is the ratio of the substance's volume to its m****. It is the reciprocal of density and an intrinsic...
- case of a species this is a specific epithet: Bellis perennis is the name of a species, in which perennis is the specific epithet. There is no connecting...
- Sensitivity and specificity are statistical measures of the performance of a binary cl****ification test, also known in statistics as a cl****ification...
- Specificity may refer to: Being specific (disambiguation) Specificity (statistics), the proportion of negatives in a binary cl****ification test which...
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