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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a specific term for the" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a particular word or phrase that describes something in detail.
Example: "In linguistics, we often seek a specific term for the phenomenon of code-switching."
Alternatives: "a precise term for the" or "a particular term for the".
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Slonimsky didn't have a specific term for the types of compulsively catchy melodies he created, but one came into being in 1979: the German psychiatrist Cornelius Eckert described such tunes as "Ohrwürmer" — earworms.
In the scoring function PLP, there is a specific term for the metal, which is not the case in Goldscore.
It is challenging to find a specific term for the process of 'making something valuable' which is so important for the transformation of inventions into innovations.
The process of separation is so unusual that a specific term for the phenomenon may not have been proposed to the scientific community.
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Darwin did not use a specific term for this crucial tenet of evolutionary biology; we will call it the Continuity Principle, following the recent insightful discussion of this issue by Penny [ 8].
The problem has become so acute that policymakers have coined a specific term for this phenomenon of squandered immigrant intellectual talent: brain waste.
A trigeminal neuralgia record had a specific term for this diagnosis.
However, the study protocol did not include a specific term for mild traumas and the rates may be increased by mild injuries being reported as severe.
If even Darwin used the concept of exaptation without having a specific term for it, one might wonder if we really need to bother with the extra vocabulary word.
A post-herpetic neuralgia record was a specific term for post-herpetic neuralgia or an acute herpes zoster term plus either neuropathy, or neuropathic pain, 3 6 months after the first acute herpes zoster entry.
This transient method, however, uses a refined collector model that includes specific terms for the wind speed dependence and the collector thermal capacitance, which are absent in the ASHRAE model.
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