Specificity
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Specificity may refer to:
  • Being specific (disambiguation)
  • Specificity (statistics), the proportion of negatives in a binary classification test which are correctly identified
  • Definiteness
    Definiteness
    In grammatical theory, definiteness is a feature of noun phrases, distinguishing between entities which are specific and identifiable in a given context and entities which are not ....

    , in linguistics, whether the referent of a noun phrase in a given context is identifiable
  • Particular
    Particular
    In philosophy, particulars are concrete entities existing in space and time as opposed to abstractions. There are, however, theories of abstract particulars or tropes. For example, Socrates is a particular...

    , as opposed to abstract, in philosophy
  • Asset specificity
    Asset specificity
    Asset specificity is a term related to the inter-party relationships of a transaction. It is usually defined as 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...

    , 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
  • Domain specificity
    Domain specificity
    Domain specificity is a theoretical position in cognitive science that argues that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized, presumably evolutionarily specified, learning devices...

    , theory that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized, presumably evolutionarily specified, learning devices

See also

  • Species (disambiguation)
    Species (disambiguation)
    Species is one of the basic units of biological classification.Species may also refer to:*Chemical species, a common name for atoms, molecules, molecular fragments, ions, etc....

  • Specification (disambiguation)
    Specification (disambiguation)
    Specification may refer to several different concepts:* Specification , an explicit set of requirements* Specification , from Roman Law...

  • Specialty (disambiguation)
  • Site-specific (disambiguation)
  • Language for specific purposes
    Language for specific purposes
    Language for Specific Purposes has been primarily used to refer to two areas within applied linguistics:# one focusing on the needs in education and training....

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