SPECIFICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does specificity mean? 

• SPECIFICITY (noun)
  The noun SPECIFICITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being specific rather than general

2. the quality of being specific to a particular organism

  Familiarity information: SPECIFICITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPECIFICITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being specific rather than general

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the specificity of the symptoms of the disease

Hypernyms ("specificity" is a kind of...):

particularity; specialness (the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance)

Derivation:

specific (stated explicitly or in detail)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being specific to a particular organism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

host specificity of a parasite

Hypernyms ("specificity" is a kind of...):

particularity; specialness (the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance)

 Context examples 

A mouse monoclonal antibody (MoAb) with binding specificity for the human melanoma-associated cell surface marker p97.

(Monoclonal Antibody 8.2, NCI Thesaurus)

A peptide resembling the complementary determining region of an antibody and retaining its specificity.

(Miniantibody, NCI Thesaurus)

The linkage system in SGN-LIV1A is highly stable in plasma, resulting in cytotoxic specificity against LIV-1-positive cells.

(Anti-LIV-1 Monoclonal Antibody-MMAE Conjugate SGN-LIV1A, NCI Thesaurus)

Processes that result in the removal of B and T lymphocytes which have specificity for self antigens.

(Clonal Deletion, NCI Thesaurus)

Lymphocytes that show specificity for autologous tumor cells.

(Murine Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating, NCI Thesaurus)

The immunoglobulin determines the ligand specificity of the complex and the CD79 heterodimer promotes signal transduction.

(B-Cell Receptor Complex, NCI Thesaurus)

The classification is based on the specificity of the bond cleaved.

(Phospholipase, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in signaling and as both a dual-specificity phosphoprotein phosphatase and a lipid phosphatase.

(Phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-Trisphosphate 3-Phosphatase and Dual-Specificity Protein Phosphatase PTEN, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in the exchange of anionic amino acids and has a high specificity for anionic forms of cystine and glutamate.

(Cystine/Glutamate Transporter Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The expression of this allele peaks at the G1-S phase and has distinct tissue specificity.

(CCNE2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)