Specific

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Specific may refer to:

• Specificity (disambiguation)
• Specific, a cure or therapy for a specific illness

• Specific deterrence, focussed on an individual
• Specific finding, intermediate verdict used by a jury in determining the final verdict
• Specific jurisdiction 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, court order to perform a specific act

• Asset specificity, 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), summing purchase costs of all inventory items
• Specific rate duty, duty paid at a specific amount per unit
• Specific risk, risk that affects a very small number of assets

• Domain specificity, theory that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized, presumably evolutionarily specified, learning devices
• Specific developmental disorder, 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

• pertaining to a species
  • Specific name (botany), species name of a plant
  • Specific name (zoology), species name of an animal
• Specific appetite, drive to eat foods with specific flavors or other characteristics
• Specific granule, secretory vesicle in granulocytes
• Specific immunity, to a particular pathogen
• Specific Pathogen Free, of a laboratory animal guaranteed free of particular (i.e., specific and named) pathogens

• A specific quantity generally means a physical quantity normalized "per unit" of something (often mass).
• SPECIFIC, The Sustainable Product Engineering Centre for Innovative Functional Industrial Coatings
• Specific creation, creationism as opposed to evolution
• Specific interval, shortest possible clockwise distance between pitch classes on the chromatic circle
• Specific integral, in calculus, eliminates the constant of integration
• Specific Physical Preparedness, being prepared for the movements in a specific physical activity (usually a sport)

• Species (disambiguation)
• Specification (disambiguation)
• Specialty (disambiguation)
• Site-specific (disambiguation)
• Language for specific purposes, has been primarily used to refer to two areas within applied linguistics

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