specifically
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
specific /spəˈsɪfɪk/
▶adjective
- 1 clearly defined or identified.
■ precise and clear: when ordering goods be specific.
■ relating uniquely to a particular subject.
- 2 Biology relating to or connected with species or a species.
- 3 (of a duty or a tax) levied at a fixed rate per physical unit of the thing taxed, regardless of its price.
- 4 Physics of or denoting a physical quantity expressed in terms of a unit mass, volume, or other measure, or calculated as a ratio to the corresponding value for a substance used as a reference.
- 1 (usu. specifics) a precise detail.
- 2 chiefly dated a medicine used to treat a particular disease or part of the body.
– derivatives
specifically adverb,
specificity /ˌspɛsɪˈfɪsɪti/ noun,
specificness noun.
specifically adverb,
specificity /ˌspɛsɪˈfɪsɪti/ noun,
specificness noun.
'specifically' also found in these Oxford entries:
Anglo-Irish
- bale
- classical
- deism
- dervish
- dingus
- dipsomania
- engine
- exclusion
- gentry
- include
- infante
- influenza
- jumbo
- lady
- lectin
- maxilla
- negation
- paraphernalia
- particularly
- phytoalexin
- Romaic
- Scots
- sex
- specific
- teg
- theism
- triduum
- veteran car
- vintage car
- viola da braccio
- viola da gamba
- vital signs
- zoo

