specification.

An explicit statement of requirements, characteristics or details.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• technical specification
• specification of conditions

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The technical specification named the conditions under which the device had to perform.

Specification of the conditions prevented the claim from being read as universal.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Singular specification; plural specifications. Also uncountable for specifying. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.