Used in a Sentence

specificity

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for specificity.

Editorial note

They need to have specificity for the tumor, they need to have specificity for the gene target(s) of interest.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

The state of being specific rather than general.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of specificity gathered in one view.

noun

The state of being specific rather than general.

noun

The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:

noun

(medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for, or a symptom or sign is specific to, a given condition.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for specificity.

noun

The state of being specific rather than general.

noun

The extent to which a characteristic is specific to a given person, place, or thing; thus:

noun

(medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for, or a symptom or sign is specific to, a given condition.

noun

(statistics) The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true negative being correctly identified.

Example sentences

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They need to have specificity for the tumor, they need to have specificity for the gene target(s) of interest.

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From the post, relevant to software design: The key element in thinking like a physicist is being willing to push simultaneously to extreme levels of abstraction and specificity.

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Why not:.login-widget { @extends widget(); } The specificity that ids bring alone are good enough reason to avoid them forever.

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Wildcards can be harder/riskier to manage in large organizations but the specificity of EV means they're just naturally going to be shared around the organization a lot less.

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It also gives a clear understanding of the level of separation/specificity of the different functions.

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Needs much more specificity wrt the young white guy requirements; you're not optimising enough.

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But regardless, the marker has a specificity of 0.62 - really that excellent?

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Of course, there's other ways to judge a regex - readability, specificity, robustness...

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You can handle 99% of use cases for specificity just nesting classes.

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When managing css in large projects, specificity is your worst enemy.

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Not necessarily, wasn't for me (Oxford, just for specificity).

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Styling elements directly also has very high specificity.

Quote examples

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When Rich Hickey talks about simple, he is referring to tight coupling, "death by specificity" and hard to understand concurrency.

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It's too broad." That's a failure on the editor's part for lack of specificity.

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I think it is important to have both the word "why" and the specificity of Heart Attacks, CAD and Diabetes in there.

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So you could use BEM: <div className="Header"> <Logo /> <Avatar className="Header__Avatar" /> </div> This prevents many of the problems with global selectors, specificity, and encapsulation, but it gets repetitive and is a little ugly once things get more complicated.

Proper noun examples

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Specificity means that you take very seriously the things that remain.

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Specificity should usually be handled through the cascade and / or IDs; that's what they were meant to do.

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Specificity: How often does the early contact result in a less intense, on-site, or diverted response?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use specificity in a sentence?

They need to have specificity for the tumor, they need to have specificity for the gene target(s) of interest.

What does specificity mean?

The state of being specific rather than general.

What part of speech is specificity?

specificity is commonly used as noun.