Specific may refer to: *

Specificity (disambiguation) Specificity may refer to: * Being specific (disambiguation) * Specificity (statistics), the proportion of negatives in a binary classification test which are correctly identified * Sensitivity and specificity, in relation to medical diagnostics * ...

* Specific, a

cure A cure is a substance or procedure that resolves a medical condition. This may include a medication, a surgery, surgical operation, a lifestyle change, or even a philosophical shift that alleviates a person's suffering or achieves a state of heali ...

therapy A therapy or medical treatment is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis. Both words, ''treatment'' and ''therapy'', are often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx. As a rule, each therapy has indications a ...

for a specific illness

Law

* Specific deterrence, focussed on an individual * Specific finding, intermediate verdict used by a jury in determining the final verdict *

Specific jurisdiction Personal jurisdiction is a court's jurisdiction over the ''parties'', as determined by the facts in evidence, which bind the parties to a lawsuit, as opposed to subject-matter jurisdiction, which is jurisdiction over the ''law'' involved in the ...

over an out-of-state party, specific to cases that have a substantial connection to the party's in-state activity * Order of

specific performance Specific performance is an equitable remedy in the law of contract, in which a court issues an order requiring a party to perform a specific act, such as to complete performance of a contract. It is typically available in the sale of land law, b ...

, court order to perform a specific act

Economics, finance, and accounting

* Asset specificity, the extent to which the investments made to support a particular transaction have a higher value to that transaction than they would have if they were redeployed for any other purpose * Specific identification (inventories), summing purchase costs of all inventory items * Specific rate duty, duty paid at a specific amount per unit *

Specific risk In finance, a specific risk is a risk that affects a very small number of assets. This is sometimes referred to as "unsystematic risk". In a balanced portfolio of assets there would be a spread between general market risk and risks specific to ind ...

, risk that affects a very small number of assets

Psychology

* Domain specificity, theory that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized, presumably evolutionarily specified, learning devices *

Specific developmental disorder Specific developmental disorders (SDD) was a classification of disorders characterized by delayed development in one specific area or areas.Ahuja Vyas: ''Textbook of Postgraduate Psychiatry'' (2 Vols.), 2nd ed. 1999 Specific developmental disorders ...

, disorders in which development is delayed in one specific area or areas, and in which basically all other areas of development are not affected * Specific learning disability *

Specific phobia Specific phobia is an anxiety disorder, characterized by an extreme, unreasonable, and irrational fear associated with a specific object, situation, or concept which poses little or no actual danger. Specific phobia can lead to avoidance of the o ...

, phobia of a specific thing or situation ** Specific social phobia, triggered only by specific social situations

Biology

* pertaining to a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

Specific name (botany) A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the ''Interna ...

, species name of a plant **

Specific name (zoology) In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet, species epithet, or epitheton) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen). The first part of the name of a species is the na ...

, species name of an animal * Specific appetite, drive to eat foods with specific flavors or other characteristics *

Specific granule Specific granules are secretory vesicles found exclusively in cells of the immune system called granulocytes. It is sometimes described as applying specifically to neutrophils, and sometimes the term is applied to other types of cells. These gr ...

, secretory vesicle in granulocytes *

Specific immunity The adaptive immune system (AIS), also known as the acquired immune system, or specific immune system is a subsystem of the immune system that is composed of specialized cells, organs, and processes that eliminate pathogens specifically. The ac ...

, to a particular pathogen *

Specific Pathogen Free Specific-pathogen-free (SPF) is a term used for laboratory animals that are guaranteed free of particular pathogens. Use of SPF animals ensures that specified diseases do not interfere with an experiment. For example, absence of respiratory patho ...

, of a laboratory animal guaranteed free of particular (i.e., specific and named) pathogens

Other fields

* A

specific quantity In the natural sciences, including physiology and engineering, a specific quantity generally refers to an intensive quantity obtained by the ratio of an extensive quantity of interest by another extensive quantity (usually mass or volume). If ma ...

generally means a

physical quantity A physical quantity (or simply quantity) is a property of a material or system that can be Quantification (science), quantified by measurement. A physical quantity can be expressed as a ''value'', which is the algebraic multiplication of a ''nu ...

normalized "per unit" of something (often mass). *

SPECIFIC Specific may refer to: * Specificity (disambiguation) * Specific, a cure or therapy for a specific illness Law * Specific deterrence, focussed on an individual * Specific finding, intermediate verdict used by a jury in determining the final ...

, The Sustainable Product Engineering Centre for Innovative Functional Industrial Coatings *

Specific creation Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation, and is often pseudoscientific. Gunn 2004, p. 9, "The ''Concise Oxford Dictionary' ...

, creationism as opposed to evolution *

Specific interval In diatonic set theory a generic interval is the number of scale steps between notes of a collection or scale. The largest generic interval is one less than the number of scale members. (Johnson 2003, p. 26) A specific interval is the cl ...

, shortest possible clockwise distance between pitch classes on the chromatic circle *

Specific integral In calculus, the constant of integration, often denoted by C (or c), is a constant term added to an antiderivative of a function f(x) to indicate that the indefinite integral of f(x) (i.e., the set of all antiderivatives of f(x)), on a connecte ...

, in calculus, eliminates the constant of integration * Specific Physical Preparedness, being prepared for the movements in a specific physical activity (usually a sport)

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