A specialist is someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
Specialist may also refer to:
Occupations
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Specialist (rank)
Specialist is a military rank in some countries' armed forces. Two branches of the United States Armed Forces use the rank. It is one of the four junior enlisted ranks in the United States Army, above private (PVT), private (PV2), and private ...
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Specialist (Singapore)
In the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), Specialist (rank), specialists are the group of ranks equivalent to non-commissioned officers in other armed forces. The term was introduced in 1993, for a more "positive" rank classification and shorter waiting ...
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Specialist officer
The Swedish Armed Forces (, literally ''Defence Force'') are the armed forces of the Kingdom of Sweden. It consists of four separate military branches, the Swedish Army, the Swedish Navy, the Swedish Air Force and the Home Guard.
Sweden's mili ...
, military rank in Sweden
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Specialist law enforcement agency A specialist law enforcement agency is a law enforcement agency which specialises in the types of laws it enforces, or types of activities it undertakes, or geography it enforces laws in, or these in combination.
The specialisation may be imposed v ...
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Specialist (arena football)
In arena football, a specialist was a player, other than a quarterback or placekicker, who was exempt from the league's one-platoon system ("Iron Man"). Under the original Arena football system, six of the eight players on each team were required t ...
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Specialist degree
The specialist degree is an academic degree conferred by a college or university. The degree is formatted differently worldwide and may be either a five-year program or a doctoral level graduate program that occurs after a master's degree but befo ...
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Specialty (medicine)
A medical specialty is a branch of medical practice that is focused on a defined group of patients, diseases, skills, or philosophy. Examples include those branches of medicine that deal exclusively with children (pediatrics), cancer (oncology), ...
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Payload specialist
A payload specialist (PS) was an individual selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a NASA Space Shuttle mission. People assigned as payload specialists included individuals selected by t ...
, a Space Shuttle crew member with duties associated with a flight's payload
Arts and entertainment
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"Specialist" (short story), a 1953 science fiction story by Robert Sheckley
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''The Specialists'' (TV series), a 1992 animated series that appeared as part of MTV's Liquid Television
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''Specialist'' (TV series), a 2016 Japanese drama
* "Specialist", a song by Interpol from the B-side of ''
Turn On the Bright Lights
''Turn On the Bright Lights'' is the debut studio album by American rock band Interpol. It was released in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2002, and in the United States the following day, through independent record label Matador Records. The ...
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''The Specialist'' (1975 film), an American thriller film
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The Specialist
''The Specialist'' is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Luis Llosa and starring Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Eric Roberts, and Rod Steiger. It is loosely based on "The Specialist" series of novels by John ...
'', a 1994 American action film
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''The Specialist'' (comics) (''Lo Sconosciuto''), an Italian comic
* ''The Specialist'', a book by
Charles "Chic" Sale
Charles Partlow "Chic" Sale (August 25, 1885 – November 7, 1936) was an American actor, author and vaudevillian. He specialized in playing older men and rural characters. Not long before he died suddenly from lobar pneumonia, at age 52, he o ...
Other uses
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Specialist (computer)
The Specialist () is a DIY computer designed in Soviet Union. Its description was published in ''Modelist-Konstructor'' (), a magazine for scale model builders in 1987. It was the first such publication in a magazine not oriented on electronics.
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Specialist species
A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources (for example, a heterotroph with a varied diet). A specialist species can thrive only in a narrow range of en ...
, a species that thrives best in a particular habitat, or has a limited diet
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Specialists' Shopping Centre
The Specialists' Shopping Centre was the oldest shopping centre on Orchard Road, a shopping area of Singapore. The largest tenants were Hotel Phoenix Singapore and John Little. The Visitor's Guide of Singapore described it as "revered". It was ...
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Specialist status
Specialist schools in the United Kingdom (sometimes branded as specialist colleges in England and Northern Ireland) are schools with an emphasis or focus in a specific specialised subject area, which is called a specialism, or alternatively in ...
, a status given to schools in the United Kingdom
See also
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Specialization (disambiguation)
Specialization or Specialized may refer to:
Academia
* Academic specialization, may be a course of study or major at an academic institution or may refer to the field in which a specialist practices
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Special adviser (disambiguation)
Special adviser may refer to:
*Special adviser (Norway), a high-ranking civil servant
*Special adviser (UK)
A Special Adviser, also known as a SpAd, is a temporary civil servant who advises and assists UK government ministers or ministers in th ...
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The Specialists (disambiguation)
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