See also: SPEC and spec.

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spec (plural specs)

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of specification.
    job spec
    The specs don't say anything about this behavior.
  2. (colloquial) Clipping of speculation.
  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).

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spec (third-person singular simple present specs, present participle speccing or spec'ing, simple past and past participle specced or spec'd)

  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.

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian spezie (spices),[2][3] ultimately from Latin speciēs.

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spec m (plural speca, definite speci, definite plural specat)

  1. (botany) pepper (Capsicum annuum)
  2. paprika
  3. (adjective) cranky

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  1. ^ Buletin, Universiteti Shtetëror i Tiranës, 1958
  2. ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “spec”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1337
  3. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “spec”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 454

Chinese

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From clipping of English specification.

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spec

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) specification (Classifier: c)

Polish

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Etymology

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Clipping of specjalista, though perhaps borrowed from Russian спе́ц (spéc), a clipping of специали́ст (specialíst).

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spec m pers

  1. (colloquial) specialist, expert
    Synonyms: specjalista, ekspert, fachowiec

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  • spec in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • spec in Polish dictionaries at PWN