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Word: specific
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- being a remedy for a particular disease
- explicit or definite
- immunology limited to a particular antibody or antigen
- intended for, or applying to a particular thing
- of, or relating to a species
- 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)
- physics 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)
- special, distinctive or unique
- taxonomy pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
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Noun:
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- in plural The details; particulars.
- Something particularly adapted for a particular use, as a remedy for a particular disorder
- Specification
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