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specification

noun

Etymology

From Middle French specification, from Medieval Latin specificationem (accusative of specificatio).

  1. derived from specification

Definitions

  1. An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.

    • The contractor followed the architect’s specifications.
    • Each computer is built to the customer’s exact specification.
    • The product failed to meet the required safety specifications.

  2. An act of specifying.

The neighborhood

Derived

despecification, misspecification, nonspecification, open-specification, overspecification, prespecification, respecification, specificational, subspecification, underspecification

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at specification. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at specification. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at specification

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA