specific

Meaning of specific

noun
  1. A distinguishing attribute or quality.
  2. A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
  3. Specification
  4. (in the plural) The details; particulars.
adjective
  1. Explicit or definite
  2. Pertaining to a species.
  3. Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
  4. Special, distinctive or unique
  5. Intended for, or applying to, a particular thing
  6. Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
    a highly specific test, specific and nonspecific symptoms
  7. Being a remedy for a particular disease
    Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
  8. Limited to a particular antibody or antigen
  9. Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
  10. 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)
  11. 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)

Information about specific

  • The plural form of specific is: specifics.
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Hyphenation of specific

spe-cific

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • specific is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

specific synonyms

Meaning particular:

particular

Meaning :

express, monosemous, unambiguous, peculiar, singular

specific antonyms

Meaning :

broad, general, generic, universal, nonspecific, unspecific

Translation of specific

Words that rhyme with specific

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