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specification

[spes-uh-fi-kay-shuhn] / ˌspɛs ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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Russell will drive the specification with which he won in Azerbaijan, the week before Malaysia, while Antonelli will run the new spec.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Tech commentator Matt Robb reported that Muse gave a would-be buyer of an item he posted for sale a price below his specification and gave the buyer his home address.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

CoreWeave looks like “the company that can deliver significant GPU capacity on time and at spec,” he said, referring to specification, which indicates a chip’s task and performance.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Our example, upfitted with the Launch Package specification, did just that, ripping away from red lights like a spooked tarpon, and me just hanging on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

It’s a hypothetical molecular-engineering technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

But surely the folks at Suno and Udio — prompt-based AI apps that spit out “newly” “created” “songs” to a user’s specifications — could do what Mars does for a fraction of the cost, right?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Very much like an election, in other words, only one populated with women who were scalpel-sculpted, lifted, tanned and tucked to surgical specifications.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

We have taken what we already know about superfluid helium and quantum technologies and turned that into an educated design, with the parameters and specifications needed to build one.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

The computing power that these chips in the pipeline can individually deliver still trails the best Nvidia chips available today, according to specifications released by the two companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

So Scoob packed up according to Dad’s specifications three days before they were supposed to depart.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone


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