The phrase "a specific term that" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to introduce or define a particular term in a discussion or explanation.
Example: "In linguistics, a specific term that describes the relationship between words is 'synonym.'"
Alternatives: "a particular term that" or "a defined term that".
The Green Revolution is a specific term that's relatively modern, relatively new in the landscape of food and agriculture, but it's had a big impact — some say a negative impact, others say a positive impact — but there's no question it's had a big impact on the world's approach to food.
A: It is legal for your husband's employer to cut his pay, unless there is an employment contract for a specific term that contains a specified salary.
Mutagenicity is a specific term that refers to a permanent, heritable change in the structure or amount of genetic material of an organism and includes gene mutations as well as structural and numerical alterations in chromosomes (Eastmond et al. 2009).
The system provides a user-friendly web-based single point to look into the ontologies for a single specific term that can be queried using a useful autocompletion search engine.
In all but two cases, terms judged to be insufficiently specific by curators could be replaced with a more specific term that already existed within the ontology.
Predictions made by automatic annotation methods use these terms as it may not be possible to choose a more specific term that will always be true for all gene products annotated by the prediction method.
It was accomplished by replacing words or patterns found in the reviewed papers by 'root terms' that the user would replace with the specific term that fits the event of interest.
An aphtha (plural aphthae) is a non specific term that refers to an ulcer of the mouth.
In all cases, there should be a more specific term that the gene product should be associated with, for example, a paper describing a gene product's involvement in a stress response should always detail the type of stress applied, allowing the curator to choose a more specific child term of 'response to stress' (GO 0006950).
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In addition, in the hierarchical structure of GO, a protein is annotated not only with the specific term that defines a given function, but also with the more general parent terms of that function.
