specific meaning
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[spəˈsɪf.ɪk] [spɪˈsɪf.ɪk] [-ɪfɪk] 
US WSpecific
- Specific may refer to:
- Specificity (disambiguation)
- Specific, a cure or therapy for a specific illness
- NounPLspecificsSUF-ific
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- Something particularly adapted for a particular use, as a remedy for a particular disorder.
- Specification.
- (in the plural) The details; particulars.
- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- AdjectiveCOMmore specificSUPmost specific
- explicit or definite.
- (sciences) Pertaining to a species.
- (taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species.
- special, distinctive or unique.
- intended for, or applying to a particular thing.
- being a remedy for a particular disease.
- Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
- (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- (physics) of 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).
- (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).
- explicit or definite.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Eyelid specific treatments for hidrocystomas have included carbon dioxide vaporization, electrosurgery, hyfrecation, botulinum toxin, and intralesional tricholoroacetic acid injection.
- It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames.
- It has also been evidenced in placental epithelium, where it replicates (especially within intraplacental inflammatory infiltrates) without causing any specific histological lesions.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Specific impairments of mentalizing in both developmental and acquired disorders suggest that this ability depends on a dedicated and circumscribed brain system.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Test Copy for Specificness / Copy, if possible, should be specific.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of specific in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- en specifically
- en specifications
- en specification
- en specifics
- en specificity
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "specific" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.