specifications
- 1A set of precise requirements describing an object or specifying how something must be made or done.
The engineers wrote detailed specifications before any code was written.
Each component must meet the specifications laid out in the contract.
Similarspecs
Note
Here the plural is the only form. One job's requirements are treated as a single body that is always grammatically plural, so you write the specifications are strict, never the specifications is. Products meet or satisfy them. The everyday clipping specs stays plural too: the specs call for steel. Unlike the ordinary plural, it does not count separate documents.
- 2Plural of specification.
The team reviewed all the specifications before approving the design.
Newer specifications replaced the outdated ones last year.
Note
A regular plural that can count either thing the singular names: distinct sets of requirements, or distinct acts of specifying. The singular also works as a mass noun, so the plural signals separate, countable items, such as several documents or several rounds of specifying. When the word means one body of requirements for a single job, it is usually the plural-only noun instead.
specifications is a form of specification
specification, noun: An explicit set of requirements that a material, product, or service must satisfy. Full entry
- Forms
- specificationspecifications plural
- Spelling
- specification → specifications: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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