specification
An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.
Example
“The contractor followed the architect’s specifications.”
Other meanings
An act of specifying.
Related words
- despecification
- misspecification
- nonspecification
- overspecification
- prespecification
- respecification
- specificational
- subspecification
- underspecification
- open-specification
Word history
From Middle French "specification".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “specification” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.