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s | specificity |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun specificity is

the state of being specific rather than general.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    specificity

    English

    Noun

    (specificities)
  • The state of being specific rather than general.
  • (statistics) The probability, in a binary test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
  • (medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for a given condition.

    • Synonyms

    * specificness (much less common)

    Antonyms

    * genericity

    Coordinate terms

    * (sense) sensitivity

    External links

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