spec

plural specs

1. abbreviationclippingcolloquialClipping of specification.

   job spec

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   The specs don't say anything about this behavior.

   We'll go into more depth with all the specs shortly so anyone less well versed in espresso speak will understand what I'm harping on about, but firstly let's just talk about using the machine.

   2025 May 3, Kev, “Rocket Appartamento TCA Review”, in Coffee Blog

2. abbreviationclippingcolloquialClipping of speculation.

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   This is told in confidence to the servant-man or woman who opens the door—‘be so good as tell the lady as much,’ says the hawker, ‘for really I’m afraid to carry the goods much longer, and I have already sold enough to pay me well enough for my spec—go, there’s a good girl, tell your missus I have splendid goods, and am willing almost to give them away, and if we makes a deal of it, why I don’t mind giving you a handsome present for yourself.’

   1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

3. abbreviationclippingClipping of specialization.
4. abbreviationclippingClipping of specialist.
5. abbreviationclippingClipping of spectrum.
6. abbreviationhuman sciencesAbbreviation of specifier.
7. abbreviationclippinghuman sciencesClipping of specifier.
8. AustraliaabbreviationclippinginformalAustralian rules footballClipping of spectacular mark, a type of catch in Australian rules football.

present singular third person specs · participle present speccing · participle present spec'ing · participle past specced · past specced · participle past spec'd · past spec'd

1. transitiveTo specify, especially in a formal specification document.

   I've found some professional yards want everything specced out completely while a home builder will just do things the way he wants.

   1999, George Buehler, The Troller Yacht Book

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   Could they still include the kinds of playful animations Ballinger had specced now that the scenes were more realistic-looking and less whimsical?

   1995, Fred Moody, I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier

   And if that is my only criticism, then these trains are pretty well 'specced'. These are an out-and-out commuter train - fast, quiet, and well-designed for their role.

   2024 January 24, Pip Dunn, “Adventure on a GA Class 720 Aventra”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 53

1. abbreviationclippingnot comparableClipping of special.
2. abbreviationclippingnot comparableClipping of specified.
3. abbreviationclippingnot comparableClipping of speculative.

plural SPECs

1. abbreviationinitialismbiologyInitialism of Species of European Conservation Concern.
2. A species designated as of conservation concern according to this classification scheme.