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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : spes-uh-fi-key-shuhn |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌspɛs ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən |
Definition of specification
Origin :- 1610s, "act of investing with some quality," from Medieval Latin specificationem (nominative specificatio), from Latin species "kind, sort" (see species) + -ficus, unstressed comb. form of facere "to make, do." Meaning "technical particular" is attested from 1833; short form spec first attested 1956.
- noun requirement, qualification
- In this specification of personal supplication we are taught to expect only as we deserve.
- Extract from : « Jesus the Christ » by James Edward Talmage
- The law contained no specification of the mutual rights and duties of the spouses.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- No specification of the time and circumstances can be made which will stand examination.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- Some examples of the process of specification will be useful.
- Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Things were not being done, he felt, according to specification.
- Extract from : « Long Live the King » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- She specified, and underlined the specification, that I was to come "right off, and in the automobile."
- Extract from : « Americans All » by Various
- No specification is made as to the size of the shotgun to be used.
- Extract from : « Frank of Freedom Hill » by Samuel A. Derieux
- The specification of the allotments need not detain us long.
- Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Joshua » by William Garden Blaikie
- The law of specification, of distinction, runs through the universe.
- Extract from : « Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding » by John Dewey
- It is a specification that emerges, correspondently, in both datum and ideatum.
- Extract from : « Essays in Experimental Logic » by John Dewey
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