specificとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind”) + faciō (“make”).

発音

• (米国発音, 英国発音) IPA^(key): /spəˈsɪf.ɪk/, /spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
• 韻: -ɪfɪk
• ハイフネーション: spe‧cif‧ic

形容詞

specific (comparative more specific, superlative most specific)

1. explicit or definite
2. (sciences) Pertaining to a species.
   • 2008, Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, Oxford 2009, p. 3:

     Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name.

3. (taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
4. special, distinctive or unique
5. intended for, or applying to, a particular thing
6. being a remedy for a particular disease

   Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.

   • 1830 May 23, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Specific Medicines”, in Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume I, London: J. Murray, page 147:

     The study of specific medicines is too much disregarded now. No doubt, the hunting after specifics is a mark of ignorance and weakness in medicine, yet the neglect of them is proof also of immaturity ; for, in fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of science.

7. (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen
8. (physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
9. (physics) similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
10. (physics) a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, かつ is relative to that of air)

同意語

• (explicit, definite): express, monosemous, unambiguous; see also Thesaurus:explicit
• (special, distinctive または unique): singular; see also Thesaurus:unique
• (intended for a particular thing): peculiar, singular; see also Thesaurus:specific

反意語

• (all): unspecific
• (intended for a particular thing): broad, general, generic, universal; see also Thesaurus:generic

下位語

派生語

参考

• generic

名詞

specific (複数形 specifics)

1. A distinguishing attribute or quality.
2. A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
   • 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:

     I had no unreasonable fear of bats, […] yet I knew them too for carriers of the dread “Hydrophobia,” for which there was no specific.

3. Specification
4. (in the plural) The details; particulars.

Further reading

• specific in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• specific in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• specific at OneLook Dictionary Search