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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
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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 sufficie ...
, or "spec sheet"
People
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Spec Harkness (1887-1952), American professional baseball pitcher
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Spec Keene (1894-1977), American college football, baseball and basketball coach
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Spec O'Donnell
Walter "Spec" O'Donnell (April 9, 1911 – October 14, 1986) was an American film actor.
Biography
Born in Fresno, California, in 1911, O'Donnell appeared in more than 190 films between 1923 and 1978. He worked frequently for producer Hal R ...
(1911-1986), American film actor
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Spec Richardson
Harold Beland "Spec" Richardson (October 27, 1922 – April 12, 2016) was an American professional baseball executive. He served as the general manager of two Major League Baseball teams, the Houston Astros (1967–75) and San Francisco Giant ...
(1922-2016), former general manager of the Houston Astros Major League Baseball team
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Spec Sanders (1919-2003), American National Football League and All-America Football Conference player
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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 Naugat ...
(1920–2002), American Major League Baseball pitcher
Science and technology
* ''spec'', an antibiotic resistance gene against
spectinomycin
Spectinomycin, sold under the tradename Trobicin among others, is an antibiotic useful for the treatment of gonorrhea infections. It is given by injection into a muscle.
Common side effects include pain at the area of injection, rash, nausea, f ...
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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 th ...
, a mathematical structure often written as Spec(''R'')
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Specifier (linguistics)
In linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase-structure grammar and a theory of syntactic category formation that was first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1970Chomsky, Noam (1970). Remarks on Nominalization. In: R. Jacobs and P. Rosenbaum (eds.) ...
, in syntax
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speculative evolution
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Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, an organization that produces benchmarks
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Hampton Inn Court at the Steinke Physical Education Center (SPEC), a Texas A&M University basketball and volleyball arena
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Solid phase extraction
Solid-phase extraction (SPE) is an extractive technique by which compounds that are dissolved or suspended in a liquid mixture are separated from other compounds in the mixture according to their physical and chemical properties. Analytical labor ...
chromatography
Other uses
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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
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Spec, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
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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 ha ...
'', a student newspaper nicknamed the Spec
See also
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Specs (disambiguation)
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Spec racing
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Spec script
A spec script, also known as a speculative screenplay, is a non-commissioned and unsolicited screenplay. It is usually written by a screenwriter who hopes to have the script optioned and eventually purchased by a producer, production company, or ...
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Spec's Music, a defunct South Florida-based retail music and video rental chain
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Spec's Wine, Spirits & Finer Foods, a Texas-based liquor store chain
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