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Specification (technical standard) A specification often refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service. A specification is often a type of technical standard. There are different types of technical or engineering specificati ...

, an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service **

datasheet A datasheet, data sheet, or spec sheet is a document that summarizes the performance and other characteristics of a product, machine, component (e.g., an electronic component), material, subsystem (e.g., a power supply), or software in suffici ...

, or "spec sheet"

People

Spec Harkness Frederick Harvey "Spec" Harkness (December 13, 1887 – May 16, 1952) was a professional baseball pitcher. In his nine-year career, he won 111 games, including 12 in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Naps. Harkness was 5 feet, 11 inches tall ...

(1887-1952), American professional baseball pitcher * Spec Keene (1894-1977), American college football, baseball and basketball coach * Spec O'Donnell (1911-1986), American film actor * Spec Richardson (1922-2016), former general manager of the Houston Astros Major League Baseball team *

Spec Sanders Orban Eugene "Spec" Sanders (January 26, 1919 – July 6, 2003) was an American football running back, quarterback, and punter in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and a defensive back in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Y ...

(1919-2003), American National Football League and All-America Football Conference player *

Spec Shea Francis Joseph "Spec" Shea (October 2, 1920 – July 19, 2002) was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1947 to 1955. He played for the New York Yankees from 1947 to 1951 and the Washington Senators from 1952 to 1955. He was known as "The Naug ...

(1920–2002), American Major League Baseball pitcher

Science and technology

* ''spec'', an antibiotic resistance gene against spectinomycin *

Spectrum of a ring In commutative algebra, the prime spectrum (or simply the spectrum) of a ring ''R'' is the set of all prime ideals of ''R'', and is usually denoted by \operatorname; in algebraic geometry it is simultaneously a topological space equipped with ...

, a mathematical structure often written as Spec(''R'') * Specifier (linguistics), in syntax * Short for

speculative evolution Speculative evolution is a genre of speculative fiction and an artistic movement focused on hypothetical scenarios in the evolution of life, and a significant form of fictional biology. It is also known as speculative biology and it is referred ...

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Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is an American non-profit corporation that aims to "produce, establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set" of performance benchmarks for computers. SPEC was founded in 1988. SPEC be ...

, an organization that produces benchmarks * Hampton Inn Court at the Steinke Physical Education Center (SPEC), a Texas A&M University basketball and volleyball arena * Solid phase extraction chromatography

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Speculation In finance, speculation is the purchase of an asset (a commodity, goods, or real estate) with the hope that it will become more valuable shortly. (It can also refer to short sales in which the speculator hopes for a decline in value.) Many ...

, the purchase of an asset with the hope that it will become more valuable in the near future * Spec, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community * ''

Columbia Daily Spectator The ''Columbia Daily Spectator'' (known colloquially as the ''Spec'') is the student newspaper of Columbia University. Founded in 1877, it is the oldest continuously operating college news daily in the nation after ''The Harvard Crimson'', and has ...

'', a student newspaper nicknamed the Spec

People

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