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Pacific (adjective)
Calm, peaceful.
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Pacific (adjective)
Preferring peace by nature; avoiding violence.
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Specific (adjective)
explicit or definite
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Specific (adjective)
Pertaining to a species.
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Specific (adjective)
pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
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Specific (adjective)
special, distinctive or unique
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Specific (adjective)
intended for, or applying to, a particular thing
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Specific (adjective)
being a remedy for a particular disease
“Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.”
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Specific (adjective)
limited to a particular antibody or antigen
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Specific (adjective)
of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
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Specific (adjective)
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)
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Specific (adjective)
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)
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Specific (noun)
A distinguishing attribute or quality.
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Specific (noun)
A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
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Specific (noun)
Specification
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Specific (noun)
The details; particulars.
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Specific (adjective)
clearly defined or identified
“savings were made by increasing the electricity supply only until it met specific development needs”
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Specific (adjective)
precise and clear in making statements or issuing instructions
“when ordering goods be specific”
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Specific (adjective)
belonging or relating uniquely to a particular subject
“information needs are often very specific to individuals”
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Specific (adjective)
relating to species or a species
“the differences between them can only be on the specific level”
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Specific (adjective)
(of a duty or a tax) levied at a fixed rate per physical unit of the thing taxed, regardless of its price.
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Specific (adjective)
of or denoting a number equal to the ratio of the value of some property of a given substance to the value of the same property of some other substance used as a reference, such as water, or of a vacuum, under equivalent conditions
“specific dielectric strength”
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Specific (adjective)
of or denoting a physical quantity expressed in terms of a unit mass, volume, or other measure, in order to give a value independent of the properties or scale of the particular system studied
“specific conductance”
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Specific (noun)
a medicine or remedy effective in treating a particular disease or part of the body
“he grasped at the idea as though she had offered him a specific for cancer”
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Specific (noun)
a precise detail
“I wish I’d put more thought into the specifics”