Specificity may refer to: * Being specific (disambiguation) * Specificity (statistics), the proportion of negatives in a binary classification test which are correctly identified *

Sensitivity and specificity In medicine and statistics, sensitivity and specificity mathematically describe the accuracy of a test that reports the presence or absence of a medical condition. If individuals who have the condition are considered "positive" and those who do ...

, in relation to medical diagnostics *

Specificity (linguistics) In linguistics, specificity is a semantic feature of noun phrases (NPs) that distinguishes between entities/nouns/referents that are unique in a given context and those that are not. Several distinct known factors determine an entity/noun/referent ...

, whether a noun phrase has a particular referent as opposed to referring to any member of a class * Specificity (symbiosis), the taxonomic range an organism associates with in a symbiosis *

Particular In metaphysics, particulars or individuals are usually contrasted with ''universals''. Universals concern features that can be exemplified by various different particulars. Particulars are often seen as concrete, spatiotemporal entities as opposed ...

, as opposed to abstract, in philosophy * Asset specificity, the extent that investments supporting a particular transaction have a higher value than if they were redeployed for any other purpose * Domain specificity, theory that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized learning devices * Specificity theory, theory that pain is "a specific sensation, with its own sensory apparatus independent of touch and other senses" * , determines which styles are applied to an html element when more than one rule could apply. *

Chemical specificity Chemical specificity is the ability of binding site of a macromolecule (such as a protein) to bind specific ligands. The fewer ligands a protein can bind, the greater its specificity. Specificity describes the strength of binding between a give ...

, in chemistry and biochemistry, with regard to enzymes or catalysts and their substrates

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