spec
/ˈspɛk/ · noun
Meaning
- A special place (for hiding or viewing)
- A spectacular mark (catch) in Australian rules football.
- To specify, especially in a formal specification document.
- A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered.
- One of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price at a restaurant.
- Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.
- A special constable.
- Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled.
- Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
- Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
- A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.
- Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.
- An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.
- The act or process of specializing.
- The area in which someone specializes.
- The adaptation of an organism to a specific environment, or adaptation of an organ to a particular function.
- A proof, axiom, problem, or definition whose cases are completely covered by another, broader concept.
- An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.
- An act of specifying.
- A person or thing that specifies.
- A component of a phrase that is non-recursive and not found as a sister of the head of the phrase, but rather as a daughter of the maximal projection of the phrase.
- The process of thinking or meditating on a subject.
- The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
- A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
- An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
- The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
- Examination by the eye; view.
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