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What is a specificity?

What is a specificity? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The state of being specific rather than general.
  2. (statistics) The probability, in a binary test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
  3. (medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for a given condition.
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These findings suggest that the specificity of translational activation plays an important role in fungal mitochondrial biogenesis.
That very specificity of chemical action is often a highly prized medicinal property.
In Brassica, pollen specificity is encoded at the multipartite S-locus, a complex region comprising many expressed genes.
Dancers can get fascinated with the biomechanical specificity of their technique, neglecting rhythm and phrasing.
However, the specificity of antibodies for antigens has a bearing on one of the issues in this case, and it is for that reason that I mention it.
For the diagnosis of scabies, skin scrapings have high specificity but low sensitivity.

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