Specificity may refer to: * Being

specific (disambiguation) Specific may refer to: * Specificity (disambiguation) * Specific, a cure or therapy for a specific illness Law * Specific deterrence, focussed on an individual * Specific finding, intermediate verdict used by a jury in determining the fina ...

Specificity (statistics) ''Sensitivity'' and ''specificity'' mathematically describe the accuracy of a test which reports the presence or absence of a condition. Individuals for which the condition is satisfied are considered "positive" and those for which it is not are ...

, the proportion of negatives in a binary classification test which are correctly identified *

Sensitivity and specificity ''Sensitivity'' and ''specificity'' mathematically describe the accuracy of a test which reports the presence or absence of a condition. Individuals for which the condition is satisfied are considered "positive" and those for which it is not are ...

, 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 to a ...

, as opposed to abstract, in philosophy *

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 that investments supporting a particular transaction have a higher value than if they were redeployed for any other purpose *

Domain specificity Domain specificity is a theoretical position in cognitive science (especially modern cognitive development) that argues that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized, presumably evolutionarily specified, learning devices. The posit ...

, 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" * Cascading Style Sheets#Specificity, 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 given ...

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

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