specificity

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[ US /ˌspɛsəˈfɪsəti/ ]
[ UK /spˌɛsɪfˈɪsɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being specific to a particular organism
    host specificity of a parasite
  2. the quality of being specific rather than general
    the specificity of the symptoms of the disease
    add a desirable note of specificity to the discussion
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How To Use specificity In A Sentence

  • The actors themselves are firmly located in contemporary Rome: the vivid specificity of the social milieux is sometimes more reminiscent of satire than of earlier elegy.
  • Williamson suggests that assets with a high amount of specificity represent sunken costs that have little value outside a particular exchange relationship.
  • Comparative genetic analysis of the viral DNA from each isolate would be required to definitively ascertain the conspecificity of these viruses.
  • Trichloroethylene, dihydroxybenzoates, benzene chlorobenzene, toluene, phenol and chlorophenylacetate isomers do not serve as substrates [2]; very broad substrate specificity [3]) [2, 3] P? Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • He is seeking a causal source for the sequence specificity found in nucleic acids and proteins. Are Stereochemical Explanations Causally Sufficient?
  • A low modulus high performance thermoplastic elastomer with compliance specificity.
  • However, such findings of perceptual specificity have had little impact on current theoretical models.
  • As such stories will, the tale gained in colour what it lost in specificity. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • The meta-compound also loses binding specificity and it binds to AT- and GC-rich sequences with similar, relatively low affinities.
  • Nabokov, of course, would have taken delight in using "scutch"; I suppose I'd go with "I feel in my gut the Fate tugging the thread" for phonetic and associational reasons, but I would regret losing the specificity of the technical term. Languagehat.com: SCUTCH.
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