1
: specification
—usually used in plural
also
: a single quantity (such as a dimension or a measure of performance) describing a product especially as part of a specification
2
: speculation
built the house on spec
Examples of spec in a Sentence
Noun
parts built according to spec
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New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2025
The Job to be Done is stable pulling on a gradient – not a spec, not a feature.
—Stephen Wunker, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Note also that Anker specs the latency at less than 25ms.
—PC Magazine, 29 July 2025
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Noun
However, the Vision CE is just a concept at this stage, with no official specs revealed yet.
—New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2025
The Job to be Done is stable pulling on a gradient – not a spec, not a feature.
—Stephen Wunker, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
WebAuthn, the predecessor spec to FIDO, hints at the same common-sense limitation.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Note also that Anker specs the latency at less than 25ms.
—PC Magazine, 29 July 2025
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“Spec.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spec. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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spec
transitive verbˈspek
specced or spec'd
ˈspekt 
; speccing
; speccing
ˈspe-kiŋ
: to write specifications for
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