[spɪˈsɪfɪk], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- clearly defined or identified
(e.g: savings were made by increasing the electricity supply only until it met specific development needs)

- relating to species or a species
(e.g: the differences between them can only be on the specific level)

- (of a duty or a tax) levied at a fixed rate per physical unit of the thing taxed, regardless of its price

- 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
(e.g: specific dielectric strength)


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Origin:
mid 17th century (originally in the sense ‘having a special determining quality’): from late Latin specificus, from Latin species (see species)

[spɪˈsɪfɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a medicine or remedy effective in treating a particular disease or part of the body
(e.g: he grasped at the idea as though she had offered him a specific for cancer)

- a precise detail
(e.g: I wish I'd put more thought into the specifics)


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Origin:
mid 17th century (originally in the sense ‘having a special determining quality’): from late Latin specificus, from Latin species (see species)