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Definition of Specific

Specific
Specific Spe*cif"ic, n. 1. (Med.) A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3. His parents were weak enough to believe that the royal touch was a specific for this malady. --Macaulay. 2. Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied. --Dr. H. More.

Meaning of Specific from wikipedia

- Look up specific or specifically in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Specific may refer to: Specificity (disambiguation) Specific, a cure or therapy for...
- Product Engineering Centre for Innovative Functional Industrial Coatings (SPECIFIC) is an academic and industrial consortium led by Swansea University, with...
- Look up specificity or specific in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Specificity may refer to: Being specific (disambiguation) Specificity (statistics)...
- Relative density, also called specific gravity, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (m**** of a unit volume) of a substance...
- Specific impulse (usually abbreviated Isp) is a measure of how efficiently a reaction m**** engine, such as a rocket using propellant or a jet engine using...
- A domain-specific language (DSL) is a computer language specialized to a particular application domain. This is in contrast to a general-purpose language...
- The specific weight, also known as the unit weight (symbol γ, the Gr**** letter gamma), is a volume-specific quantity defined as the weight W divided by...
- In thermodynamics, the specific heat capacity (symbol c) of a substance is the amount of heat that must be added to one unit of m**** of the substance in...
- The specific strength is a material's (or muscle's) strength (force per unit area at failure) divided by its density. It is also known as the strength-to-weight...
- Specific name may refer to: in Database management systems, a system-****igned name that is unique within a particular database In taxonomy, either of these...