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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
specification \spec`i*fi*ca"tion\ (sp[e^]s`[i^]*f[i^]*k[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [Cf. F. sp['e]cification, LL. specificatio.]
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The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits.
This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry.
--I. Watts. The designation of particulars; particular mention; as, the specification of a charge against an officer.
A written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars, as of charges against a public officer, the terms of a contract, the description of an invention, as in a patent; also, a single article, item, or particular, an allegation of a specific act, as in a charge of official misconduct.
A detailed listing or description of the required properties of some object proposed to be built or bought; -- usually used in the plural; as, the building specifications require that it withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8; the program specifications require an option to change the menus.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "act of investing with some quality," from Medieval Latin specificationem (nominative specificatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin specificare "mention particularly," from Latin specificus, (see specific). With Latin -ficus, unstressed comb. form of facere "to make, do." Meaning "technical particular" is attested from 1833; short form spec first attested 1956.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service. 2 An act of specify.
WordNet
n. a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work [syn: spec]
naming explicitly
(patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and usse of an invention
a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement [syn: stipulation]
Wikipedia
Specification is a legal concept adopted from Roman law. It is an original mode of acquisition, since it involves deriving rights over objects that are subject to pre-existing rights of ownership. This may be compared with the original modes of acquisition, and other derivative modes of acquisition, such as accession. Specification occurs where new property rights are established as a result of some action upon existing property that results in a change of species.
Specification may refer to:
- Specification (technical standard), an explicit set of requirements
- Specification (legal concept), from Roman Law
- Specification (regression), the practice of translating theory into a model for regression analysis
- Specification language, for describing a computer software design at a high level
- Regional specification, identifying different areas of the early embryo in biology
- Patent specification, part of a patent application
In regression analysis specification is the process of developing a regression model. This process consists of selecting an appropriate functional form for the model and choosing which variables to include. For instance, one may specify the functional relationship y = f(s, x) between personal income y and human capital in terms of schooling s and on-the-job experience x as:
lny = lny + ρs + βx + βx + ɛ
where ɛ is the unexplained error term that is supposed to be independent and identically distributed. If assumptions of the regression model are correct, the least squares estimates of the parameters ρ and β will be efficient and unbiased. Hence specification diagnostics usually involve testing the first to fourth moment of the residuals.
There are different types of specifications, which generally are mostly types of documents, forms or orders or relates to information in databases. The word specification is defined as "to state explicitly or in detail" or "to be specific". A specification may refer to a type of technical standard (the main topic of this page).
Using a word "specification" without additional information to what kind of specification you refer to is confusing and considered bad practice within systems engineering.
A requirement specification is a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service.
A functional specification is closely related to the requirement specification and may show functional block diagrams.
A design or product specification describes the features of the solutions for the Requirement Specification, referring to the designed solution or final produced solution. Sometimes the term specification is here used in connection with a data sheet (or spec sheet). This may be confusing. A data sheet describes the technical characteristics of an item or product as designed and/or produced. It can be published by a manufacturer to help people choose products or to help use the products. A data sheet is not a technical specification as described in this article.
A "in-service" or "maintained as" specification, specifies the conditions of a system or object after years of operation, including the effects of wear and maintenance (configuration changes).
Specifications may also refer to technical standards, which may be developed by any of various kinds of organizations, both public and private. Example organization types include a corporation, a consortium (a small group of corporations), a trade association (an industry-wide group of corporations), a national government (including its military, regulatory agencies, and national laboratories and institutes), a professional association (society), a purpose-made standards organization such as ISO, or vendor-neutral developed generic requirements. It is common for one organization to refer to (reference, call out, cite) the standards of another. Voluntary standards may become mandatory if adopted by a government or business contract.
Usage examples of "specification".
The advertisement also gave the reader the specifications of the product-measurements, accessories and price.
Neutrally Buoyant First Order Ubiquitous Climax Clade Gas-Giant Dwellers, to grant them a still more painfully precise specification - were large creatures of immense age who lived within the deliriously complex and topologically vast civilisation of great antiquity which was distributed throughout the cloud layers wrapping the enormous gas-giant planet, a habitat that was as stupendous in scale as it was changeable in aerography.
When coiling ceases, time rebuilds the molecules to its own specifications, the glue snaps back and the self in time is recreated.
Attracted to the fields being generated by the individual pastries, independent drifting globules of the customized liqueur that Walker had lovingly hand-tailored to his own specifications proceeded to englobe each and every puff.
Old Empire to the specifications of a great chieftain of the early Dovnaan conquerors, for the worship of Dayu in his aspect as guider of the sun.
Each impactor and each launch had to meet exacting specification and schedule constraints to make the implosion as symmetrical as physics would allow, or the biggest fiasco in human history would result.
The quantity of cement sampled is sufficient for the tests required under the specifications of the Isthmian Canal Commission, as well as for preliminary tests made by the cement company, and check tests made at the Geological Survey laboratory, at Pittsburg.
As usual, Ivan and Pikel had crafted the metal to exact specifications.
They pored carefully over each specification and questioned Auberson ceaselessly about the bond proposals.
I warn you, however, that a rewording of the specifications may change their meaning to the extent that they define manslaughter.
He strove to implant this vision in the minds of Frankenstein and the others, and kept coming back again and again to the specification that all the workers ultimately produced must not only be docile, strong, and enduring, but should be able to subsist, like swine or goats, on acorns and other inexpensive roughage, with now and then a handful of berries as reward for some particularly difficult labor.
There were, however, specifications on record as to what mechanical amplification was permitted the management of the Fact, the frequency of the programming and the nights on which public gatherings could be held and the maximum number of people permitted to gather.
King Bester delivered your specification a week ago, and it provides such an intriguing challenge that since then I have worked on nothing else.
In the truest fashion of every light weapon developed by a committee, the procurement system finally developed specifications for the manjacks that transformed them from the original concept of a light, relatively simple automatic weapon on an automated tripod, into a virtual mini-tank.
I did not think our child would be satisfied with building walls to military specifications, or draining marshland, either.