specific Meaning of specific in English:
specific
ADJECTIVE
1Clearly defined or identified.
‘savings were made by increasing the electricity supply only until it met specific development needs’
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1.1Precise and clear in making statements or issuing instructions.
‘when ordering goods be specific’
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1.2Belonging or relating uniquely to a particular subject.
‘information needs are often very specific to individuals’
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2Biology
Relating to species or a species.
‘the differences between them can only be on the specific level’
3(of a duty or a tax) levied at a fixed rate per physical unit of the thing taxed, regardless of its price.
‘All specific excise taxes are unfair in that no tax contribution is made by non-consumers.’
4Physics
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’
4.1Of or denoting a physical quantity expressed in terms of a unit mass, volume, or other measure, in order to give a value independent of the properties or scale of the particular system studied.
‘specific conductance’
NOUN
1dated 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’
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2usually specificsA precise detail.
‘I wish I'd put more thought into the specifics’
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Origin
Mid 17th century (originally in the sense ‘having a special determining quality’): from late Latin specificus, from Latin species (see species).
Pronunciation
specific/spəˈsɪfɪk/
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