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    spe·cif·ic
    [spəˈsifik]
    adjective
    specific (adjective)
    1. clearly defined or identified:
      "increasing the electricity supply only until it met specific development needs"
      • precise and clear in making statements or issuing instructions:
        "when ordering goods be specific"
      • belonging or relating uniquely to a particular subject:
        "information needs are often very specific to companies and individuals"
    2. biology
      relating to or connected with species or a species:
      "the differences between them can only be on the specific level"
    3. (of a duty or a tax) levied at a fixed rate per physical unit of the thing taxed, regardless of its price.
    4. physics
      of or denoting a number equal to the ratio of the value of some property of a given substance to the value of the same property of some other substance used as a reference, such as water, or of a vacuum, under equivalent conditions:
      "specific dielectric strength"
      • of or denoting a physical quantity expressed in terms of a unit mass, volume, or other measure, in order to give a value independent of the properties or scale of the particular system studied:
        "specific conductance"
    noun
    specific (noun) · specifics (plural noun)
    1. dated
      a medicine or remedy effective in treating a particular disease or part of the body:
      "he grasped at the idea as though she had offered him a specific for cancer"
    2. (specifics)
      a precise detail:
      "he worked through the specifics of the contract"
    Origin
    mid 17th century (originally in the sense ‘having a special determining quality’): from late Latin specificus, from Latin species (see species).
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