Specificity may refer to: * Being

specific (disambiguation) 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 fina ...

Specificity (statistics) In medicine and statistics, sensitivity and specificity mathematically describe the accuracy of a test that reports the presence or absence of a medical condition. If individuals who have the condition are considered "positive" and those who do ...

, the proportion of negatives in a binary classification test which are correctly identified *

Sensitivity and specificity In medicine and statistics, sensitivity and specificity mathematically describe the accuracy of a test that reports the presence or absence of a medical condition. If individuals who have the condition are considered "positive" and those who do ...

, in relation to medical diagnostics *

Specificity (linguistics) In linguistics, specificity is a semantic feature of noun phrases (NPs) that distinguishes between entities/nouns/referents that are unique in a given context and those that are not. Several distinct known factors determine an entity/noun/referen ...

, whether a noun phrase has a particular referent as opposed to referring to any member of a class *

Specificity (symbiosis) Specificity in symbiosis refers to the taxonomic range with which an organism associates in a symbiosis. In a symbiosis between a larger organism such as a plant or an animal (called host) and a microorganism (called symbiont) specificity can be lo ...

, the taxonomic range an organism associates with in a symbiosis *

Particular In metaphysics, particulars or individuals are usually contrasted with universals. Universals concern features that can be exemplified by various different particulars. Particulars are often seen as concrete, spatiotemporal entities as opposed to a ...

, as opposed to abstract, in philosophy *

Asset specificity Asset specificity is a term related to the inter-party relationships of a transaction. It is usually defined as the extent to which the investments made to support a particular transaction have a higher value to that transaction than they would have ...

, the extent that investments supporting a particular transaction have a higher value than if they were redeployed for any other purpose *

Domain specificity Domain specificity is a theoretical position in cognitive science (especially modern cognitive development) that argues that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized, presumably evolutionarily specified, learning devices. The posit ...

, theory that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized learning devices *

Specificity theory As long as humans have experienced pain, they have given explanations for its existence and sought soothing agents to dull or cease the painful sensation. Archaeologists have uncovered clay tablets dating back as far as 5,000 BC which reference th ...

, theory that pain is "a specific sensation, with its own sensory apparatus independent of touch and other senses" * Cascading Style Sheets#Specificity, determines which styles are applied to an html element when more than one rule could apply. *

Chemical specificity Chemical specificity is the ability of binding site of a macromolecule (such as a protein) to bind specific ligands. The fewer ligands a protein can bind, the greater its specificity. Specificity describes the strength of binding between a giv ...

, in chemistry and biochemistry, with regard to enzymes or catalysts and their substrates

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