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
• 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
• 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"
• Cascading Style Sheets#Specificity, determines which styles are applied to an html element when more than one rule could apply.
• Chemical specificity, in chemistry and biochemistry, with regard to enzymes or catalysts and their substrates