spec

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   informal: a detailed specification describing required features, dimensions, or performance

   The contractor checked every measurement against the project spec.

2. 2
   verb

   informal: to specify or choose the features of something

   They specced the server with enough memory for the new database.

3. 3
   noun

   in biological citations: an abbreviation of species

   The catalogue marked the unidentified beetle as a new spec.

4. 4
   verb

   dialectal shortening of expect

   I spec he will decide whether to stay tomorrow.

A clipping used for several words beginning spec-, most commonly specification. The verb developed from the noun. Taxonomic citations abbreviate species as spec., while literary dialect sometimes uses 'spec for expect.

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