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  2. Specific name (zoology) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the scientific name for humans is Homo sapiens, which is the species name, consisting of two names: Homo is the "generic name" (the name of the genus) and sapiens is the "specific name". Historically, specific name referred to the combination of what are now called the generic and specific names.

  3. Letter of intent - Wikipedia

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    The document, akin to a cover letter for job applications, a statement of purpose, or an application essay, typically outlines an applicant's academic journey, their passion for the chosen field of study, and how the specific graduate program will help them achieve their career goals.

  4. List of chemical compounds with unusual names - Wikipedia

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    The illustration at right shows a generic fenestrane as well as the specific example [4,4,4,4]fenestrane. Fenestranes are of considerable interest in theoretical chemistry though comparatively few have actually been synthesised. Housane: A polycyclic alkane named "housane" because it looks superficially like a house. [3] Ladderane

  5. Interspecific competition - Wikipedia

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    Subadult male lion and female spotted hyena in the Masai Mara.The two species share the same ecological niche, and are thus in competition with each other. Interspecific competition, in ecology, is a form of competition in which individuals of different species compete for the same resources in an ecosystem (e.g. food or living space).

  6. Specificity (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Turkish provides an example of this, as indefinites in the object position are always explicitly specific or non-specific. A noun phrase with the accusative case morpheme -(y)i is necessarily interpreted as specific, as shown in this example: Ali bir piyano-yu kiralamak istiyor. Ali one piano-Acc to-rent wants "Ali wants to rent a certain piano."

  7. Specific heat capacity - Wikipedia

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    The specific heat capacity of a substance, usually denoted by or , is the heat capacity of a sample of the substance, divided by the mass of the sample: [10] = =, where represents the amount of heat needed to uniformly raise the temperature of the sample by a small increment .

  8. Hypernymy and hyponymy - Wikipedia

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    An example of the relationship between hyponyms and hypernym. Hypernymy and hyponymy are the semantic relations between a generic term (hypernym) and a more specific term (hyponym). The hypernym is also called a supertype, umbrella term, or blanket term.

  9. Extraneous and missing solutions - Wikipedia

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    For this specific example, it could be recognized that (for the value =), the operation of multiplying by () (+) would be a multiplication by zero. However, it is not always simple to evaluate whether each operation already performed was allowed by the final answer.