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Specification
- Specification (technical standard)Specification (technical standard)A specification is an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service. Should a material, product or service fail to meet one or more of the applicable specifications, it may be referred to as being out of specification;the abbreviation OOS may also be used...
, an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service- "Spec sheet" or datasheetDatasheetthumb|A floppy disk controller datasheet.A datasheet, data sheet, or spec sheet is a document summarizing the performance and other technical characteristics of a product, machine, component , material, a subsystem or software in sufficient detail to be used by a design engineer to integrate the...
used to describe something technical - Building to spec, producing a product in conformanceConformanceConformance is how well something, such as a product or animal, meets a specified standard and may also refer to:* Conformance testing, testing to determine whether a product or system meets some specified standard...
with the specifications- Spec ad, an advertisement built by an advertisingAdvertisingAdvertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
firm to the customer's specifications
- Spec ad, an advertisement built by an advertising
- Spec racing, the racing of vehicles that are all built to the same specifications, usually of a particular make and model
- Spec MiataSpec MiataSpec Miata is a class of racing car used in Sports Car Club of America , National Auto Sport Association , and Midwestern Council of Sports Car Clubs road racing events....
, a spec racing class - Spec Racer FordSpec Racer FordSpec Racer Ford is a class of racing car used in Sports Car Club of America and other series road racing events. The Spec Racer Ford, manufactured and marketed by SCCA Enterprises , is a high performance, closed wheel, open cockpit, purpose-built race car intended for paved road courses, such as...
, a spec racing class - Spec RX-7, a spec racing class
- Spec Miata
- "Spec sheet" or datasheet
Speculation
- Speculation in the broadest sense of that word—hypothetical thinking, prediction
- SpeculationSpeculationIn finance, speculation is a financial action that does not promise safety of the initial investment along with the return on the principal sum...
in the economic and financial sense—investing or spending resources with the hope/prediction of future returns- Work done "on speculation" ("on spec"), meaning that the person or company that did the work did so at their own expense, with the hope that the demonstrable results would spur sales, convincing customers to pay for future such work
- Real estateReal estateIn general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...
speculation, buying real estate on the speculation that its value will rise - Speculative constructionConstructionIn the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...
, building structures on the speculation that they will find willing buyers (or tenants) once complete - spec scriptSpec scriptA spec script, also known as a speculative screenplay, is a non-commissioned 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 studio....
, a script written by an aspiring screenwriter to act as a sort of written audition as part of the process of obtaining representation by a literary agent - spec multimediaMultimediaMultimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
(e.g., music video, commercial), a piece of content whose creator produces it at his own expense in the hope of landing paid work, to improve his portfolio ("showreel") in order to get a paid job
- Real estate
- Work done "on speculation" ("on spec"), meaning that the person or company that did the work did so at their own expense, with the hope that the demonstrable results would spur sales, convincing customers to pay for future such work
- Speculation
Other uses
- Standard Performance Evaluation CorporationStandard Performance Evaluation CorporationThe Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation is a non-profit organization that aims to "produce, establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set" of performance benchmarks for computers....
, an organization that produces benchmarks - Columbia Daily SpectatorColumbia Daily SpectatorColumbia Daily Spectator is the daily student newspaper of Columbia University. It is published at 112th and Broadway in New York, New York. Founded in 1877, it is the oldest continuously operating college news daily in the nation after The Harvard Crimson, and has been legally independent of the...
, a student newspaper that is nicknamed the Spec - Spectrum of a ringSpectrum of a ringIn abstract algebra and algebraic geometry, the spectrum of a commutative ring R, denoted by Spec, is the set of all proper prime ideals of R...
, a mathematical structure often written as Spec(R) - SpectrophotometrySpectrophotometryIn chemistry, spectrophotometry is the quantitative measurement of the reflection or transmission properties of a material as a function of wavelength...
, a science of measuring light intensity and wavelength- Spectrophotometer, an instrument used in spectrophotometrySpectrophotometryIn chemistry, spectrophotometry is the quantitative measurement of the reflection or transmission properties of a material as a function of wavelength...
- Spectrophotometer, an instrument used in spectrophotometry
- GNU Compiler CollectionGNU Compiler CollectionThe GNU Compiler Collection is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages. GCC is a key component of the GNU toolchain...
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