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specification
/ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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What does specification mean?
noun
- An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.
- An act of specifying.
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/ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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A careful specification of the masonry work was drawn up, and the contract was let to Messrs.
No single specification of cruelty was ever alleged against the fair fame of Francis Marion.
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The specification of this really remarkable structure may be taken from M. Nadar's own description.
He turned up his nose if a toy were not perfection, and he had to have his food prepared according to specification or his appetite vanished.
As regards medical science, we have the Berlin papyrus, which, although of a later period, refers with careful specification to a medical literature of the first dynasty.