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What does particular mean?

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Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
  2. Specific; discrete; concrete.
  3. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
  4. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
  5. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
  6. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
  7. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
  8. (law) Containing a part only; limited.
  9. (law) Holding a particular estate.
  10. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
Noun
  1. A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point. [from 15th c.]
  2. (obsolete) A person's own individual case. [16th-19th c.]
  3. (philosophy) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.) [from 17th c.]
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