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名詞

spec (plural specs)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of specification.

   job spec

   The specs don't say anything about this behavior.

   • 2025 May 3, Kev, “Rocket Appartamento TCA Review”, in Coffee Blog‎:

     We'll go into more depth with all the specs shortly so anyone less well versed in espresso speak will understand what I'm harping on about, but firstly let's just talk about using the machine.

2. (colloquial) Clipping of speculation.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

     This is told in confidence to the servant-man or woman who opens the door—‘be so good as tell the lady as much,’ says the hawker, ‘for really I’m afraid to carry the goods much longer, and I have already sold enough to pay me well enough for my spec—go, there’s a good girl, tell your missus I have splendid goods, and am willing almost to give them away, and if we makes a deal of it, why I don’t mind giving you a handsome present for yourself.’

3. Clipping of specialization.
4. Clipping of specialist.
5. Clipping of special.
6. Clipping of spectrum.
7. (linguistics) Abbreviation of specifier.
8. (linguistics) Clipping of specifier.
9. (Australia, Australian rules football, informal) Clipping of spectacular mark, a type of catch in Australian rules football.

派生語

動詞

spec (third-person singular simple present specs or spec's, present participle specing or spec'ing, simple past and past participle speced or spec'd or spec'ed)

1. (transitive) To specify, especially in a formal specification document.
   • 1999, George Buehler, The Troller Yacht Book:

     I've found some professional yards want everything specced out completely while a home builder will just do things the way he wants.

   • 1995, Fred Moody, I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier:

     Could they still include the kinds of playful animations Ballinger had specced now that the scenes were more realistic-looking and less whimsical?

   • 2024 January 24, Pip Dunn, “Adventure on a GA Class 720 Aventra”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 53:

     And if that is my only criticism, then these trains are pretty well 'specced'. These are an out-and-out commuter train - fast, quiet, and well-designed for their role.

派生語

形容詞

spec (not comparable)

1. Clipping of special
2. Clipping of specified
3. Clipping of speculative

参考

アナグラム

• CEPs, CPEs, CSPE, ECPs, EPCs, PESC, Pécs, ceps, pecs