American English pronunciation
How to pronounce specific
IPA transcription: [spə'sɪfɪk]
Pronunciation variants: [spə'sɪfɪk][spɪ'sɪfɪk]
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Noun
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a fact about some part (as opposed to general)
“he always reasons from the particular to the general”
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a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease
“quinine is a specific for malaria”
Adjective
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(sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique
“rules with specific application”
“demands specific to the job”
“a specific and detailed account of the accident”
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relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species
“specific characters”
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being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides
“quinine is highly specific for malaria”
“a specific remedy”
“a specific stain is one having a specific affinity for particular structural elements”
Adjective
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stated explicitly or in detail
“needed a specific amount”
Usage examples
- This specification only applies to audio amplifiers.
- This specific approach won't bear any fruit.
- Not specifically no, he only gave me the gist of his research the one time I spoke to him.
- This beer has been brewed in Germany, more specifically in Bavaria.
- Faudree specialized in combinatorics, and specifically in graph theory and Ramsey theory.
- This phenomenon however, does require very specific circumstances in order to generate the sound.
- This beer has been brewed in Germany, more specifically in Bavaria.
- Wilk argued that this committee was established specifically to undermine chiropractic.
- The implementation is not compliant with the specification.
- Biodemography is a subfield which specifically integrates biological understanding into demographics analysis.