| specific activity |
activity per unit weight of a radioactive material, or the activity of a radioisotope per unit weight of the element (including stable isotopes) present.
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| specific action |
the action of a drug which is exerted on a certain definite pathogenic organism.
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| specific |
Applied to a physical quantity, especially a thermodynamic variable, usually means per unit mass. For example, specific volume is volume divided by mass, specific enthalpy is enthalpy divided by mass, and so on. Specific quantities are common in meteorology, and hence specific is often omitted as a qualifier, it being understood.
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| specific heat capacity |
(Or specific heat.) The heat capacity of a system divided by its mass. It is a property solely of the substance of which the system is composed. As with heat capacities, specific heats are commonly defined for processes occurring at either constant volume (c v ) or constant pressure (c p ). For an ideal gas, both are constant with temperature and related by c p = c v + R with R the gas constant. ...
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| specificity |
For diagnostic tests, the ability of a probe to react precisely with a specific target molecule.
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