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specification

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


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Arcade said it has also contributed directly to the open-source MCP specification and open-source technology that lets customers build their own MCP servers with the same capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

The rules dictate that power-unit manufacturers must supply to their customers engines of exactly the same specification as those used by the works team.

From BBC Apr. 7, 2026

The Black Badge specification features a dark-anodized grille and hood figurine in the place of chrome brightwork—younger, fresher, more nocturnal, but also nicely understated, which I like.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 4, 2026

The job specification describes the role as one of "the most important, high-profile public posts in the UK".

From Barron's Nov. 24, 2025

They absorbed the restrictions and made sketches and measurements, trying out different designs until they settled on the best specification.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

In April, City of York Council struggled to attract interest from construction firms to build 315 homes to the standard due to market conditions and the complexity of building to such specifications.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

But an increasing amount of those sales are actually within prebuilt components, such as frame sections for houses, built to specifications provided by the builders.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

According to its official website, the portal is a “shared space for enemy weapons research” that provides researchers, governments and defense firms with the specifications of Russian capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Rather than relying on SpaceX's published specifications, the team reconstructed the rocket's performance by extracting telemetry from publicly available video of its first four integrated flight tests.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

Not surprisingly, those government purity specifications are based on what German breweries put into beer, and not on what American, French, and Swedish breweries like to put into beer.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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