specification
nounEtymology From Middle French specification, from Medieval Latin specificationem (accusative of specificatio).
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.
1 more example
- The product failed to meet the required safety specifications.
2
An act of specifying.
- Derived terms
- despecification, misspecification, nonspecification, open-specification, overspecification, prespecification, respecification, specificational, subspecification, underspecification