Specific may refer to: * Specificity (disambiguation) * Specific, a

cure A cure is a substance or procedure that ends a medical condition, such as a medication, a surgical operation, a change in lifestyle or even a philosophical mindset that helps end a person's sufferings; or the state of being healed, or cured. The ...

or therapy for a specific illness

Law

Specific deterrence Deterrence in relation to criminal offending is the idea or theory that the threat of punishment will deter people from committing crime and reduce the probability and/or level of offending in society. It is one of five objectives that punishment ...

, focussed on an individual * Specific finding, intermediate verdict used by a jury in determining the final verdict *

Specific jurisdiction Personal jurisdiction is a court's jurisdiction over the ''parties'', as determined by the facts in evidence, which bind the parties to a lawsuit, as opposed to subject-matter jurisdiction, which is jurisdiction over the ''law'' involved in the ...

over an out-of-state party, specific to cases that have a substantial connection to the party's in-state activity * Order of

specific performance Specific performance is an equitable remedy in the law of contract, whereby a court issues an order requiring a party to perform a specific act, such as to complete performance of the contract. It is typically available in the sale of land law, ...

, court order to perform a specific act

Economics, finance, and accounting

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 to which the investments made to support a particular transaction have a higher value to that transaction than they would have if they were redeployed for any other purpose *

Specific identification (inventories) Specific identification is a method of finding out ending inventory cost. It requires a detailed physical count, so that the company knows exactly how many of each good bought on specific dates comprise the year-end inventory. When this inform ...

, summing purchase costs of all inventory items *

Specific rate duty A Per unit tax, specific rate Duty (economics), duty is a tariff levied on imports, defined in terms of a specific amount per unit, such as cents per kilogram. By contrast, an ad valorem duty is a charge levied on imports defined in terms of a fixe ...

, duty paid at a specific amount per unit *

Specific risk In finance, a specific risk is a risk that affects a very small number of assets. This is sometimes referred to as "unsystematic risk". In a balanced portfolio of assets there would be a spread between general market risk and risks specific to ind ...

, risk that affects a very small number of assets

Psychology

* Domain specificity, theory that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized, presumably evolutionarily specified, learning devices *

Specific developmental disorder Specific developmental disorders (SDD) was a classification of disorders characterized by delayed development in one specific area or areas.Ahuja Vyas: ''Textbook of Postgraduate Psychiatry'' (2 Vols.), 2nd ed. 1999 Specific developmental disorders ...

, disorders in which development is delayed in one specific area or areas, and in which basically all other areas of development are not affected * Specific learning disability * Specific phobia, phobia of a specific thing or situation ** Specific social phobia, triggered only by specific social situations

Biology

* pertaining to a species **

Specific name (botany) A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the '' International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the ''Interna ...

, species name of a plant ** Specific name (zoology), species name of an animal *

Specific appetite Specific appetite, also known as specific hunger, is a drive to eat foods with specific flavors or other characteristics. Regulation of homeostasis is essential to the survival of animals. Because the nutritional content of a diet will vary with en ...

, drive to eat foods with specific flavors or other characteristics *

Specific granule Specific granules are secretory vesicles found exclusively in cells of the immune system called granulocytes. It is sometimes described as applying specifically to neutrophils, and sometimes the term is applied to other types of cells. These gr ...

, secretory vesicle in granulocytes *

Specific immunity The adaptive immune system, also known as the acquired immune system, is a subsystem of the immune system that is composed of specialized, systemic cells and processes that eliminate pathogens or prevent their growth. The acquired immune system ...

, to a particular pathogen *

Specific Pathogen Free Specific-pathogen-free (SPF) is a term used for laboratory animals that are guaranteed free of particular pathogens. Use of SPF animals ensures that specified diseases do not interfere with an experiment. For example, absence of respiratory pathog ...

, of a laboratory animal guaranteed free of particular (i.e., specific and named) pathogens

Other fields

* A specific quantity generally means a

physical quantity A physical quantity is a physical property of a material or system that can be quantified by measurement. A physical quantity can be expressed as a ''value'', which is the algebraic multiplication of a ' Numerical value ' and a ' Unit '. For examp ...

normalized "per unit" of something (often mass). * SPECIFIC, The Sustainable Product Engineering Centre for Innovative Functional Industrial Coatings *

Specific creation Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation. Gunn 2004, p. 9, "The ''Concise Oxford Dictionary'' says that creationism is 't ...

, creationism as opposed to evolution * Specific interval, shortest possible clockwise distance between pitch classes on the chromatic circle *

Specific integral In calculus, the constant of integration, often denoted by C (or c), is a constant term added to an antiderivative of a function f(x) to indicate that the indefinite integral of f(x) (i.e., the set of all antiderivatives of f(x)), on a connected ...

, in calculus, eliminates the constant of integration * Specific Physical Preparedness, being prepared for the movements in a specific physical activity (usually a sport)

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