Specific
# Specific

Specific may refer to:

* Specificity (disambiguation)
* Specific, a cure or therapy for a specific illness

## Law

* Specific deterrence, focussed on an individual
* Specific finding, intermediate verdict used by a jury in determining the final verdict
* Specific jurisdiction over an out-of-state party, specific to cases that have a substantial connection to the party's in-state activity
* Order of specific performance, court order to perform a specific act

### Economics, finance, and accounting

* Asset specificity, the extent to which the investments made to support a particular transaction have a higher value to that transaction than they would have if they were redeployed for any other purpose
* Specific identification (inventories), summing purchase costs of all inventory items
* Specific rate duty, duty paid at a specific amount per unit
* Specific risk, risk that affects a very small number of assets

## Psychology

* Domain specificity, theory that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized, presumably evolutionarily specified, learning devices
* Specific developmental disorder, disorders in which development is delayed in one specific area or areas, and in which basically all other areas of development are not affected
* Specific learning disability
* Specific phobia, phobia of a specific thing or situation
   * Specific social phobia, triggered only by specific social situations

## Biology

* pertaining to a species
   * Specific name (botany), species name of a plant
   * Specific name (zoology), species name of an animal
* Specific appetite, drive to eat foods with specific flavors or other characteristics
* Specific granule, secretory vesicle in granulocytes
* Specific immunity, to a particular pathogen
* Specific Pathogen Free, of a laboratory animal guaranteed free of particular (i.e., specific and named) pathogens

## Other fields

* A specific quantity generally means a physical quantity normalized "per unit" of something (often mass).
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* Specific creation, creationism as opposed to evolution
* Specific interval, shortest possible clockwise distance between pitch classes on the chromatic circle
* Specific integral, in calculus, eliminates the constant of integration
* Specific Physical Preparedness, being prepared for the movements in a specific physical activity (usually a sport)
