spec

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛk/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Homophone: speck

spec (plural specs)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of specification.
2. (colloquial) Clipping of speculation.
3. Clipping of specialization.
4. Clipping of specialist.
5. Clipping of special.
6. (dialectal) a special place (for hiding or viewing)
7. (Australia, Australian rules football, informal) A spectacular mark (catch) in Australian rules football.

• on spec

spec (third-person singular simple present specs, present participle speccing, simple past and past participle specced)

1. (transitive) To specify, especially in a formal specification document.
   • 1999, George Buehler, The Troller Yacht Book

     I've found some professional yards want everything specced out completely while a home builder will just do things the way he wants.

   • 1995, Fred Moody, I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier

     Could they still include the kinds of playful animations Ballinger had specced now that the scenes were more realistic-looking and less whimsical?

• CPEs, CSPE, ECPs, EPCs, PESC, Pécs, ceps, pecs