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Ubiquitous vs Specific - What's the difference?

ubiquitous | specific |

As adjectives the difference between ubiquitous and specific

is that ubiquitous is being everywhere at once: omnipresent while specific is explicit or definite.

As a noun specific is

a distinguishing attribute or quality.

ubiquitous

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
    • To Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Christians, God is ubiquitous.
  • Seeming to appear everywhere at the same time.
  • Widespread; very prevalent.

    • Quotations

    * 1851 — *: One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous ; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time. * 1927-1929' — *: I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Chetaskumar was there too.

    Synonyms

    * (being everywhere ): omnipresent * (seeming to appear everywhere at the same time ): ever-present

    Derived terms

    * ubiquitously

    Related terms

    * ubiquarian * ubiquitin * ubiquity

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    specific

    English

    Alternative forms

    * specifick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • explicit or definite
  • (sciences) Pertaining to a species.
  • *2008 , (Richard Dawkins), The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing , Oxford 2009, p. 3:
  • *:Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name.
  • (taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
  • special, distinctive or unique
  • intended for, or applying to a particular thing
  • being a remedy for a particular disease
    • Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
  • * Coleridge
    • In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of the science.
  • (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen
  • (physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
  • (physics) similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
  • (physics) a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)

    • Antonyms

    * all-purpose * broad * general * general-purpose * generic * gross * nonspecific * overall * pandemic * universal * unspecific * widespread

    Derived terms

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    See also

    * generic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A distinguishing attribute or quality.
  • Something particularly adapted for a particular use, as a remedy for a particular disorder
  • Specification
  • (in the plural) The details; particulars.

    • Derived terms

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