A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
Fixed limit.
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
To have a limit in a particular set.
Being a fixed limit game.
A distinguishing attribute or quality.
The details; particulars.
A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
Specification
of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
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)
Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
Hyponyms: monospecific, multispecific, oligospecific, paucispecific
intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
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)
pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
special, distinctive or unique.
being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
explicit or definite.