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 Definitions of Specimen  [ˈspɛs ə mən]  

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Definition of 'Specimen' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) specimen
a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, mineral, etc.

2.  specimen
a sample of a substance or material for examination or study.

3.  specimen
a particular or peculiar kind of person.

Etymology:  (1600–10; < L: mark, example =speci-, s. of specere to look +-men n. suffix of result or means)

Definition of 'Specimen' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) specimen
an example regarded as typical of its class

2. (noun) specimen
a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
"they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis"


Definition of 'Specimen' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) specimen
a particular example of a plant, animal, etc.
a rare specimen of bird

2.  specimen
a sample taken for testing
a blood specimen


Definition of 'Specimen' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Specimen
a part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art


Translation of 'Specimen' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: something used as a sample (of a group or kind of something, especially an object to be studied or to be put in a collection)
We looked at specimens of different types of rock under the microscope.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: monster Arabic flag Arabic: نموذَج، عَيِّنَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: образец
Brazilian flag Brazilian: espécime Czech flag Czech: vzorek German flag German: das Exemplar
Danish flag Danish: eksempel; prøve Greek flag Greek: (αντιπροσωπευτικό) δείγμα Spanish flag Spanish: espécimen, muestra
Estonian flag Estonian: näidis Farsi flag Farsi: نمونه Finnish flag Finnish: näyte
French flag French: spécimen Hebrew flag Hebrew: דוּגמָה Hindi flag Hindi: वानगी, निदर्श, नमूना
Croatian flag Croatian: uzorak, primjerak Hungarian flag Hungarian: minta(darab) Indonesian flag Indonesian: contoh
Icelandic flag Icelandic: sÿnishorn Italian flag Italian: campione, esemplare Japanese flag Japanese: 標本
Korean flag Korean: 표본 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: pavyzdys Latvian flag Latvian: paraugs; eksemplārs
Malay flag Malay: spesimen Dutch flag Dutch: specimen Norwegian flag Norwegian: eksemplar, prøve
Polish flag Polish: okaz, egzemplarz Persian flag Persian: نمونه Pashto flag Pashto: نمونه
Portuguese flag Portuguese: espécime Romanian flag Romanian: speci­men Russian flag Russian: образец
Slovak flag Slovak: vzorka Slovenian flag Slovenian: primerek Serbian flag Serbian: uzorak
Swedish flag Swedish: prov[exemplar] Thai flag Thai: ตัวอย่าง Turkish flag Turkish: örnek
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 標本,樣品 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: зразок, взірець Urdu flag Urdu: نمونہ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: mẫu, mẫu vật Chinese flag Chinese: 标本,样品

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