{
  "id": "specific.detail",
  "term": "specific",
  "sense": "detail",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "specific",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "that which does not differ from the thing it is about and is not others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "just.exact",
      "difference.relation",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "just and difference together make a thing that does not differ from the thing it is about and is not others",
    "novel_properties": [
      "focused reference",
      "exclusive scope",
      "single‑thing focus"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Prototype of the Kilogram remained unchanged in mass while serving as the standard until 2019.",
      "domain": "metrology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The GPS system synchronizes atomic clocks on satellites to maintain exact time across the network.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Twin studies at the University of Minnesota in the 1980s showed identical genetic expressions in separated siblings.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "just.exact",
      "note": "",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "general.broad",
      "note": "",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "application.use",
    "april.month",
    "commission.transaction",
    "jewelry.accessory",
    "noun.language",
    "particular.specific",
    "technical.skill",
    "terms.language",
    "west.direction"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "specific",
    "specifics"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-specific.detail"
}