Associations to the word «Specificity»
Noun
- Imaging
- Biosynthesis
- Toxicity
- Probe
- Motif
- Phenotype
- Genes
- Adhesion
- Pathway
- Lipid
- Uptake
- Gene
- Stability
- Scaffold
- Mutation
- Genome
- Estrogen
- Lesion
- Tissue
- Helix
- Apoptosis
- Mechanism
- Sequencing
- Acid
- Phosphate
- Throughput
- Fluorescence
- Characterization
- Cloning
- Insecticide
- Target
- Smear
- Superfamily
- Neuron
- Membrane
- Blot
- Stimulus
- Chromatography
- Criterion
- Complex
- Pairing
- Amine
- Insertion
- Prevalence
- Diversity
- Bonding
- Template
- Lack
- Negative
- Spectroscopy
- Hormone
- Cell
- Toxin
- Glucose
- Axon
- Relevance
- Ct
- Rationality
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
SPECIFICITY, noun. The state of being specific rather than general.
SPECIFICITY, noun. (statistics) The probability, in a binary test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
SPECIFICITY, noun. (medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for a given condition.
Dictionary definition
SPECIFICITY, noun. The quality of being specific rather than general; "add a desirable note of specificity to the discussion"; "the specificity of the symptoms of the disease".
SPECIFICITY, noun. The quality of being specific to a particular organism; "host specificity of a parasite".
Wise words
The difference between the right word and the almost right
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