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
- DefinitenessDefinitenessIn 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 - ParticularParticularIn 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 specificityAsset specificityAsset 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 specificityDomain specificityDomain 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 purposesLanguage for specific purposesLanguage for Specific Purposes has been primarily used to refer to two areas within applied linguistics:# one focusing on the needs in education and training....