Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being specific, or of having a specific character or relation; specific affinity, cause, origin, or effect; specificness.
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- noun The state of being
specific rather thangeneral . - noun statistics The
probability , in abinary test , of a truenegative being correctly identified. - noun medicine The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for a given condition.
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- noun the quality of being specific to a particular organism
- noun the quality of being specific rather than general
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Wigfield, Guthrie, Tonks, & Perencevich (2004) wrote about “the nature and domain specificity of reading motivation.”
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bilby commented on the word specificity
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September 9, 2009