specific
adjective
[ spəˈsɪfɪk ]
• clearly defined or identified.
• "savings were made by increasing the electricity supply only until it met specific development needs"
Similar:
particular,
specified,
certain,
fixed,
set,
determined,
distinct,
separate,
definite,
single,
individual,
peculiar,
discrete,
express,
precise,
• relating to species or a species.
• "the differences between them can only be on the specific level"
• (of a duty or a tax) levied at a fixed rate per physical unit of the thing taxed, regardless of its price.
• 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"
specific
noun
• 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"
• a precise detail.
• "I wish I'd put more thought into the specifics"
Origin:
mid 17th century (originally in the sense ‘having a special determining quality’): from late Latin specificus, from Latin species (see species).
