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Synonyms for specification

Grammar : Noun
Spell : spes-uh-fi-key-shuhn
Phonetic Transcription : ˌspɛs ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən


Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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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