Noun

spec (plural specs)

1. (colloquial) short form of specification
2. (colloquial) short form of speculation
3. short form of specialization
4. short form of special
5. (dialect) a special place (for hiding or viewing)

Derived terms

on spec

Verb

to 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?

Spec may refer to:

• spec is a music video or commercial which its creator produces at his own expense to improve his showreel in order to get a paid job. Often the people involved work for free and there is no video commissioner in between.
• spec script, a script written by an aspiring screenwriter to act as a sort of written audition as part of the process of obtaining representation by a literary agent
• Spec Ad, an advertising term used when an ad is built to the customers specifications
• Spec series, a description of Spec racing
• Spec Miata, a Spec racing class
• Spec Racer Ford, a Spec racing class
• Spec RX-7, a Spec racing class
• Spectinomycin, an antibiotic
• Specification, an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.
• Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, an organization that produces benchmarks
• Columbia Daily Spectator, a student newspaper that is nicknamed the Spec
• Spectrum of a ring, a mathematical structure often written as Spec(R)
• Spectrophotometer, a device for measuring light intensity and wavelength.
• Speculation, hypothetical thinking
• "Spec sheet" or data sheet used to describe something technical