specific
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Is specific a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (bioscience, taxonomy) Pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.Examples: "Holonyms: generic, familial"; "Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific"; "Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name."
2. (sometimes in combination) Special, distinctive or unique.Examples: "A psychologist told WJLA TV that, for the most part, this isn’t a Cocomelon-specific issue. The main issue is too much screen time and children's shows with fast-paced sequences."Synonyms: singularin-compoundssometimes
3. (immunology) Limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
4. (physics) Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy).
5. (physics) Similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
6. (physics) A measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air).
noun (English)
1. (in the plural) The details; particulars.in-plural
2. (toponymy) The distinguishing part of a toponym.Examples: "With the exception of names of pan-Canadian significance and some alternate forms approved by provincial authorities, the specific is not translated."Antonyms: generic
Definition source: Wiktionary