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specific 1. of or relating to a biological species 2. (of a disease) caused by a particular pathogenic agent 3. Physics a. characteristic of a property of a particular substance, esp in relation to the same property of a standard reference substance b. characteristic of a property of a particular substance per unit mass, length, area, volume, etc. c. (of an extensive physical quantity) divided by mass 4. International trade denoting a tariff levied at a fixed sum per unit of weight, quantity, volume, etc., irrespective of value 5. Med any drug used to treat a particular disease specific [spə′sif·ik] (physics) Indicating the amount of a physical quantity per unit mass, weight, volume, or area, or the ratio of the quantity for the substance under consideration to the same quantity for a standard substance, such as water. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| For those who have some specific habit may be said also, in virtue of that habit, to be thus or thus disposed; but those who are disposed in some specific way have not in all cases the corresponding habit. No Dunsey had come back: people had made up their minds that he was gone for a soldier, or gone "out of the country", and no one cared to be specific in their inquiries on a subject delicate to a respectable family. As the sequel to what has already been said, we must proceed to consider what the poet should aim at, and what he should avoid, in constructing his plots; and by what means the specific effect of Tragedy will be produced. |
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