Usually means: Clearly defined or identified; particular.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. -specific, specific: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. specific: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. specific: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. specific: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Specific, specific: Wordnik
  6. specific: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. specific: Wiktionary
  8. -specific, specific: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. specific: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. specific: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. specific: Dictionary.com
  12. specific: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. specific: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. SPECIFIC, Specific (disambiguation), Specific: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Specific: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. specific: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. specific: Rhymezone
  18. specific: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. specific: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. specific: Free Dictionary
  21. specific: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. specific: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. specific: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. specific: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. specific: Vocabulary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. specific: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. specific: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. specific: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Specific: Physic and Astronomy Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  explicit or definite.
adjective:  (bioscience, taxonomy) pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
adjective:  special, distinctive or unique.
adjective:  intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
adjective:  Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
adjective:  being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
adjective:  (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
adjective:  (physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
adjective:  (physics) similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
adjective:  (physics) a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
noun:  A distinguishing attribute or quality.
noun:  A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
noun:  Specification
noun:  (in the plural) The details; particulars.

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