in particular

adjective

1. of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one’s particular interests in books.
2. immediately present or under consideration; in this specific instance or place: Look at this particular clause in the contract.
3. distinguished or different from others or from the ordinary; noteworthy; marked; unusual: She sang with particular warmth at last evening’s concert.
4. exceptional or especial: Take particular pains with this job.
5. being such in an exceptional degree: a particular friend of mine.
6. dealing with or giving details, as an account or description, of a person; detailed; minute.
7. exceptionally selective, attentive, or exacting; fastidious; fussy: to be particular about one’s food.
8. Logic.
   1. not general; referring to an indefinite part of a whole class.
   2. (of a proposition) containing only existential quantifiers.
   3. partaking of the nature of an individual as opposed to a class.
9. Law.
   1. noting an estate that precedes a future or ultimate ownership, as lands devised to a widow during her lifetime and after that to her children.
   2. noting the tenant of such an estate.

noun

10. an individual or distinct part, as an item of a list or enumeration.
11. Usually particulars. specific points, details, or circumstances: to give an investigator the particulars of a case.
12. Logic. an individual or a specific group within a general class.

Idioms

13. in particular, particularly; specifically; especially: There is one book in particular that may help you.

adjective

1. (prenominal) of or belonging to a single or specific person, thing, category, etc; specific; specialthe particular demands of the job; no particular reason
2. (prenominal) exceptional or markeda matter of particular importance
3. (prenominal) relating to or providing specific details or circumstancesa particular account
4. exacting or difficult to please, esp in details; fussy
5. (of the solution of a differential equation) obtained by giving specific values to the arbitrary constants in a general equation
6. logic (of a proposition) affirming or denying something about only some members of a class of objects, as in some men are not wickedCompare universal (def. 10)
7. property law denoting an estate that precedes the passing of the property into ultimate ownershipSee also remainder (def. 3), reversion (def. 4)

noun

8. a separate distinct item that helps to form a generalization: opposed to general
9. (often plural) an item of information; detailcomplete in every particular
10. logic another name for individual (def. 7a)
11. philosophy an individual object, as contrasted with a universalSee universal (def. 12b)
12. in particular especially, particularly, or exactly

n.

“a part or section of a whole,” late 14c., from particular (adj.). Particulars “small details of statement” is from c.1600.

adj.

late 14c., “pertaining to a single thing or person,” from Old French particuler (14c., Modern French particulier) and directly from Late Latin particularis “of a part, concerning a small part,” from Latin particula “particle” (see particle). Sense of “precise, exacting” first recorded 1814.

Especially; also, separately, individually, in detail. For example, The chancellor talked about the curriculum, the core courses in particular, or The orchestra was outstanding, the strings in particular. [c. 1500]

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