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specification

[spes-uh-fi-kay-shuhn] / ˌspɛs ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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Russell will drive the specification with which he won in Azerbaijan, the week before Malaysia, while Antonelli will run the new spec.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Tech commentator Matt Robb reported that Muse gave a would-be buyer of an item he posted for sale a price below his specification and gave the buyer his home address.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

CoreWeave looks like “the company that can deliver significant GPU capacity on time and at spec,” he said, referring to specification, which indicates a chip’s task and performance.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Our example, upfitted with the Launch Package specification, did just that, ripping away from red lights like a spooked tarpon, and me just hanging on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Having absorbed Lawrence’s confidence that further efficiencies eventually would be achieved, Groves reduced the specification for Y-12 to five hundred tanks, or five racetracks.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

They count 37 standards and 10 working groups that are tasked with responsibilities like issuing tea bag specifications.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026

The missiles flew about 250 kilometres, and "South Korea and the United States are conducting a detailed analysis of their exact specifications", Seoul's military said, adding it had stepped up surveillance of possible additional launches.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

But surely the folks at Suno and Udio — prompt-based AI apps that spit out “newly” “created” “songs” to a user’s specifications — could do what Mars does for a fraction of the cost, right?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Cefas Endeavour was a technically challenging ship, with exacting specifications for noise and vibration so that it would not disturb fish during survey work.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Both Mr. Sloat and Milt Borogrove stared at him as he rattled on, “Give us the specifications of the cat you desire. Color, sex, subtype, such as Manx, Persian, Abyssinian—”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick


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