specification

See also: spécification

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

specification (countable and uncountable, plural specifications)

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.

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• species
• specific
• specify

Translations

explicit set of requirements

• Arabic: مُوَاصَفَة f (muwāṣafa)
• Armenian: հատկորոշում (hatkorošum), մասնագիր (hy) (masnagir)
• Belarusian: спецыфіка́цыя f (spjecyfikácyja), спэцыфіка́цыя f (specyfikácyja)
• Bulgarian: специфика́ция f (specifikácija)
• Catalan: especificació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 規格 / 规格 (zh) (guīgé), 規範 / 规范 (zh) (guīfàn)

• Czech: specifikace f
• Danish: specifikation c
• Dutch: specificatie (nl) f
• Finnish: määrittely (fi), spesifikaatio (fi)
• French: spécification (fr) f
• Georgian: სპეციფიკაცია (sṗecipiḳacia)
• German: Spezifikation (de) f
• Greek: προδιαγραφή (el) f (prodiagrafí), προσδιορισμός (el) m (prosdiorismós)
• Hungarian: vizsgakövetelmény (hu) sg, vizsgakövetelmények pl
• Icelandic: kröfulýsing f
• Indonesian: spesifikasi (id)
• Italian: specificazione (it) f, specifica (it) f, capitolato (it) m
• Japanese: 仕様 (ja) (しよう, shiyō), スペック (ja) (supekku)
• Korean: 사양(仕樣) (ko) (sayang), 스펙 (ko) (seupek)
• Macedonian: спецификација f (specifikacija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spesifikasjon m

  Nynorsk: spesifikasjon m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: مُشَخَصات (fa) (mošaxasât)

• Polish: specyfikacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: especificação (pt) f
• Russian: специфика́ция (ru) f (specifikácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: специфика́ција f

  Latin: specifikácija (sh) f

• Slovak: špecifikácia f
• Slovene: specifikacija f
• Spanish: especificación (es) f
• Swedish: specifikation (sv) c
• Turkish: şartname (tr), spesifikasyon
• Ukrainian: специфіка́ція f (specyfikácija)
• Vietnamese: quy cách (vi), quy phạm (vi), đặc tả (vi)

act of specifying

• Catalan: especificació f
• Finnish: spesifiointi (fi), spesifioiminen, määrittely (fi)
• French: spécification (fr) f
• Georgian: დაკონკრეტება (daḳonḳreṭeba)
• Māori: tautuhinga
• Polish: sprecyzowanie n
• Russian: уточне́ние (ru) n (utočnénije)
• Ukrainian: уто́чнення n (utóčnennja)