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specification

[spes-uh-fi-kay-shuhn] / ˌspɛs ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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Mercedes went to Austin with both cars in the new upgraded specification that had proved unconvincing, to say the least, when it made its debut in Malaysia two races ago.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Russell will drive the specification with which he won in Azerbaijan, the week before Malaysia, while Antonelli will run the new spec.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Tech commentator Matt Robb reported that Muse gave a would-be buyer of an item he posted for sale a price below his specification and gave the buyer his home address.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

CoreWeave looks like “the company that can deliver significant GPU capacity on time and at spec,” he said, referring to specification, which indicates a chip’s task and performance.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

The very earliest events in the specification of an embryo—the specification of the body axis, of front and back, and left versus right—were among the last to be understood.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The missiles flew about 250 kilometres, and "South Korea and the United States are conducting a detailed analysis of their exact specifications", Seoul's military said, adding it had stepped up surveillance of possible additional launches.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Coming up with prompts could be easy some days—“Explain this at a sixth-grade level”— or more tedious when it came to teaching AI about, say, technical specifications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

But surely the folks at Suno and Udio — prompt-based AI apps that spit out “newly” “created” “songs” to a user’s specifications — could do what Mars does for a fraction of the cost, right?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

But even keeping that in mind, some would argue that these bots are customizable enough that you could hack and change them anyway to your preferred specifications, like using first-person pronouns.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

Per her specifications, it was angled so not a hint of the mine could be seen.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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