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specification

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


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Championship leader Kimi Antonelli, using the Mercedes upgrade that underperformed in Malaysia while Russell is on the previous specification, could manage only seventh.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

So in an attempt to prove whether that was because of idiosyncrasies to do with the Sepang track or a problem with the upgrade itself, Mercedes is splitting the specification of their cars.

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

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

Very much like an election, in other words, only one populated with women who were scalpel-sculpted, lifted, tanned and tucked to surgical specifications.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

We have taken what we already know about superfluid helium and quantum technologies and turned that into an educated design, with the parameters and specifications needed to build one.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Cefas Endeavour was a technically challenging ship, with exacting specifications for noise and vibration so that it would not disturb fish during survey work.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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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