specificity

Specificity may refer to: Being specific (disambiguation) Specificity (statistics), the proportion of negatives in a binary classification test which are correctly identified Sensitivity and specificity, in relation to medical diagnostics Specificity (linguistics), whether a noun phrase has a particular referent as opposed to referring to any member of a class Specificity (symbiosis), the taxonomic range an organism associates with in a symbiosis Particular, as opposed to abstract, in philosophy Asset specificity, the extent that investments supporting a particular transaction have a higher value than if they were redeployed for any other purpose Domain specificity, theory that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized learning devices Specificity theory, theory that pain is "a specific sensation, with its own sensory apparatus independent of touch and other senses" , a principle used to determine the priority order of styles applied to HTML elements Chemical specificity, in chemistry and biochemistry, with regard to enzymes or catalysts and their substrates

==See also== Species (disambiguation) Specification (disambiguation) Specialty (disambiguation) Site-specific (disambiguation) Language for specific purposes