Specific

Specific may refer to:


 * Specificity (disambiguation)
 * Specific, a cure or therapy for a specific illness

Law

 * Specific deterrence, focussed on an individual
 * Specific finding, intermediate verdict used by a jury in determining the final verdict
 * Specific jurisdiction over an out-of-state party, specific to cases that have a substantial connection to the party's in-state activity
 * Order of specific performance, court order to perform a specific act

Economics, finance, and accounting

 * Asset specificity, 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
 * Specific identification (inventories), summing purchase costs of all inventory items
 * Specific rate duty, duty paid at a specific amount per unit
 * Specific risk, risk that affects a very small number of assets

Psychology

 * Domain specificity, theory that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized, presumably evolutionarily specified, learning devices
 * Specific developmental disorder, disorders in which development is delayed in one specific area or areas, and in which basically all other areas of development are not affected
 * Specific learning disability
 * Specific phobia, phobia of a specific thing or situation
 * Specific social phobia, triggered only by specific social situations

Biology

 * pertaining to a species
 * Specific name (botany), species name of a plant
 * Specific name (zoology), species name of an animal
 * Specific appetite, drive to eat foods with specific flavors or other characteristics
 * Specific granule, secretory vesicle in granulocytes
 * Specific immunity, to a particular pathogen
 * Specific Pathogen Free, of a laboratory animal guaranteed free of particular (i.e., specific and named) pathogens

Other fields

 * A specific quantity generally means a physical quantity normalized "per unit" of something (often mass).
 * SPECIFIC, The Sustainable Product Engineering Centre for Innovative Functional Industrial Coatings
 * Specific creation, creationism as opposed to evolution
 * Specific interval, shortest possible clockwise distance between pitch classes on the chromatic circle
 * Specific integral, in calculus, eliminates the constant of integration
 * Specific Physical Preparedness, being prepared for the movements in a specific physical activity (usually a sport)