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SPEC

[spek]

noun

Usually, specs. specification (def. 2).

speculation.

adjective

built, done, bought, etc., as a speculation: the construction of spec houses.

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verb (used with object)

to provide specifications for: Their newest truck was spec'd by a computer.

Idiom

on spec, made, built, or done with hopes of but no assurance of payment or a sale; without commitment by a client or buyer: ad illustrations done on spec; luxury homes built on spec and sold before completion.

Origin:
1785–95, Americanism; by shortening

Related forms

spec·’er, speck·er, noun

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plural noun Informal.

spectacles; eyeglasses.

specifications.

Origin:
1800–10; by shortening

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World English Dictionary

spec (spɛk)

—n
1.	on spec as a speculation or gamble: all the tickets were sold so I went to the theatre on spec

—*adj*
2.	(Austral), (NZ) (prenominal) speculative: a spec developer

[C19: short for speculation or speculative]

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specs definition

[spɛks]

n.
eyeglasses; spectacles. : I need specs to find where I left my specs.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

SPEC definition

benchmark, body
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
A non-profit corporation registered in California formed to "establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers" (from SPEC's bylaws). The founders believe that the user community will benefit greatly from an objective series of applications-oriented tests, which can serve as common reference points and be considered during the evaluation process.
SPEC develops suites of benchmarks intended to measure computer performance. These are available to the public for a fee covering development and administration costs.
The current (14 Nov 94) SPEC benchmark suites are: CINT92 (CPU intensive integer benchmarks); CFP92 (CPU intensive floating-point benchmarks); SDM (UNIX Software Development Workloads); SFS (System level file server (NFS) workload).
Results (ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/spectable).
SPEC also publishes a quarterly report of SPEC news and results, The SPEC Newsletter. Some issues are here (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/spec.html).
There is a FAQ about SPEC here (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/specfaq.html).
(1994-11-14)

Spec definition

A specification language. It expresses black box interface specifications for large distributed systems with real-time constraints. It incorporates conceptual models, inheritance and the event model. It is a descendant of MSG.84.
["An Introduction to the Specification Language Spec", V. Berzins et al, IEEE Software 7(2):74-84 (Mar 1990)].