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A distinguishing attribute or quality.
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A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
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Specification
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(in the plural) The details; particulars.
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Explicit or definite
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Pertaining to a species.
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Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
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Special, distinctive or unique
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Intended for, or applying to, a particular thing
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Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
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a highly specific test, specific and nonspecific symptoms
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Being a remedy for a particular disease
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Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
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Limited to a particular antibody or antigen
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Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
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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)
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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)
Examples of specific in a Sentence
It's easy to identify specific crimes and follow them up.
She dropped Jonathan off and told him to meet her at a specific time and place.
We have specific criteria and certain limitations.
We never had much luck going back to a specific time that long ago.
You wouldn't need a specific date or time and you could probably find your old home, given enough tries.
Each one has its own specific codes and specifications.
He may understand you need the specific time of the incident.
Someone his size with his specific skills didn't ask for favors or need to be polite.
Was she encouraging Alex to assume a paternal role, or was she merely old-fashioned enough to think that men and women had specific roles?
If Patsy had a destination in mind more specific than Chicago, she didn't share this knowledge with her hitchhiking passenger.
If it were something specific, it would be one thing, but Jonathan was a good boy and he didn't want to stifle him the way Carmen's parents did her.
Other officers are the clerk of the county court, elected for six years, the sheriff, who also acts as tax-collector and treasurer, the prosecuting attorney, one or two assessors, the surveyor of lands and the superintendent of free schools, all elected for the term of four years; the sheriff may not serve two consecutive full terms. In addition there are boards appointed or elected by various authorities and charged with specific duties.
The specific name reticulatus would not apply to this; it should be guttatus rather.
The pay per click (PPC) business is a way to advertise online to people who did a specific search in a search engine like Google or who are viewing content on a certain topic.
Whether you look at a single country over a span of time, or a group of countries at a specific point in history, the result is the same.
Only specific types of glue will allow wood to adhere to itself.
Either they didn't want to spook him or they don't have any concrete evidence of specific crimes.
The specific heat is.
This will produce extremely specific nutritional information for just you, will add years to your life, and will increase its quality as well.
Sofi's skill relied mostly on reading the future of a specific soul by touching them, and he'd not let her within miles of a vamp since taking over her guardianship.
The treatment is symptomatic, there being no specific antidote.
Certain categories of food are intended to be consumed under specific circumstances.
True to our verbal blackout, nothing specific was said but the tone of her conversation hinted at sensational news.
After too much heated discussion, I agreed to give a less than specific tip saying I didn't believe the child was abducted.
Vortr.) that the specific prediction concerning Zedekiah (xii.
The presbytery fixes the former for specific business; the latter is summoned by the moderator, either on his own initiative or on the requisition of two or more members of presbytery, for the transaction of business which has suddenly emerged.
If too, as seems most probable, bishops and presbyters were practically identical, there is of course a specific reference to them in Phil.
It is true, of course, that ultimate laws need discovery, that they are discovered in some sense in the medium of the psychological mechanism, and that they are nevertheless the grounds of all specific inferences.
Its specific gravity is about 3.2.
Many can be used to help treat specific ailments.
Only some such position as Abbe Loisy's critical summing up (1903) brings out its specific greatness.
While Apostolic phrases are used, the sense behind them is often different and less evangelic. They have not caught the Apostolic meaning, because they have not penetrated to the full religious experience which gave to the words, often words with long and varied history both in the Septuagint and in ordinary Greek usage, their specific meaning to each apostle and especially to Paul.
Its specific gravity is 1 54, and after remelting 1 56; after distillation it is 1.52.
Ustun-tagh, which appears on Stieler's map as an alternative name for Altyn-tagh, means Higher or Farther Mountains, and though not used locally of any specific range, would be appropriately employed to designate the higher and more southerly of the twin border-ranges of the Tibetan plateau.
Fluorine is a pale greenish-yellow gas with a very sharp smell; its specific gravity is 1.265.
It possesses only slight influence over the heart and respiration, but it has a specific effect on mucous membranes as the elimination of the drug takes place largely through the lungs, where it aids in loosening bronchial secretions.
It is also an intestinal and hepatic stimulant and a feeble diuretic and diaphoretic, and has been considered a specific in some forms of neuralgia.
The specific gospel of Jesus, the gospel of divine fatherhood and human brotherhood, received no attention in the earliest days, so far as our sources enable us to judge.
The bases of priestly power under this system are the unity of the altar, its inaccessibility to laymen and to the inferior ministers of the sanctuary, and the specific atoning functions of the blood of priestly sacrifices.
With all the important work he accomplished in physics - the enunciation of Boyle's law, the discovery of the part taken by air in the propagation of sound, and investigations on the expansive force of freezing water, on specific gravities and refractive powers, on crystals, on electricity, on colour, on hydrostatics, &c. - chemistry was his peculiar and favourite study.
Its specific gravity is 4.83 to 5.2, its hardness 6 to 6.5.
Prior to this, in 1526-1527, appeared a programme of the lectures he intended to deliver at Basel, but this can hardly be reckoned a specific work.
Recently Hermann Walther Nernst has been able to deduce the transitionpoint in the case of sulphur from the specific heat and the heat developed in the transition only.
There is an equally specific reference in liv.
The specific gravity ranges from 3.56 to 3.50, generally about 3.52.
There remains open a wide field for inquiry as to the precise relations between selection and variation on the one hand, and their products, specific differences and adaptive structures, but the advance of knowledge has supplied no alternative to the Darwinian principles.
Its specific heat is 0.1946.
It is a dark coloured powder of specific gravity 5.09.
Here only the specific properties of the parabola will be given.
They failed to realize that permissible abstraction from specific contents or methods of knowledge does not obliterate reference to matter or content.