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• specific bequest — (or specific devise). A testamentary gift of specific personal property (e.g. my old rocking chair ) or of a specific amount of cash. A specific bequest (or devise) is a gift by will of a specific article or part of testator s estate, which is… …   Black's law dictionary

• specific insurance — Insurance against a specific peril or in a specific amount. Anno: 13 ALR2d 725. Insurance under a policy covering particular property specifically, as contrasted with insurance under a blanket policy …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Specific heat capacity — Specific heat capacity, also known simply as specific heat, is the measure of the heat energy required to increase the temperature of a unit quantity of a substance by a certain temperature interval. The term originated primarily through the work …   Wikipedia

• Specific impulse — (usually abbreviated I sp) is a way to describe the efficiency of rocket and jet engines. It represents the impulse (change in momentum) per unit of propellant. The higher the specific impulse, the less propellant is needed to gain a given amount …   Wikipedia

• Amount of substance — is a standards defined quantity that measures the size of an ensemble of elementary entities, such as atoms, molecules, electrons, and other particles. It is sometimes referred to as chemical amount. The International System of Units (SI) defines …   Wikipedia

• Specific storage — (Ss), storativity (S), specific yield (Sy) and specific capacity are material physical properties that characterize the capacity of an aquifer to release groundwater from storage in response to a decline in hydraulic head. For that reason they… …   Wikipedia

• Specific fuel consumption (thrust) — Specific fuel consumption, often shortened to SFC, or TSFC is an engineering term that is used to describe the fuel efficiency of an engine design with respect to thrust output. It allows the efficiency of different sized engines to be directly… …   Wikipedia

• specific — [spə sif′ik] adj. [LL specificus < L species (see SPECIES) + ficus, FIC] 1. limiting or limited; specifying or specified; precise; definite; explicit [no specific plans] 2. of or constituting a species 3. peculiar to or characteristic of… …   English World dictionary

• Specific Identification — is a method of finding out ending inventory cost. It requires a very detailed physical count, so that the company knows exactly how many of each goods brought on specfic dates remained at year end inventory. When this information is found, the… …   Wikipedia

• specific heat — n. 1. the number of calories needed to raise the temperature of one gram of a given substance 1°C 2. the ratio of the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a given mass of a substance one degree to the amount of heat required to… …   English World dictionary

• Specific surface energy — specific surface energy, also known as surface free energy, is the amount of increase of free energy when the area of surface increases by every unit area. It can be calculate using Stefan s formula. Specific surface energy is the same as surface …   Wikipedia