Spec may refer to: *

Specification (technical standard) A specification often refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service. A specification is often a type of technical standard. There are different types of technical or engineering specificati ...

, an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service **

datasheet A datasheet, data sheet, or spec sheet is a document that summarizes the performance and other characteristics of a product, machine, component (e.g., an electronic component), material, subsystem (e.g., a power supply), or software in suffici ...

, or "spec sheet"

People

* Spec Harkness (1887-1952), American professional baseball pitcher *

Spec Keene Roy Servais "Spec" Keene (July 1, 1894 – August 24, 1977) was an American football, baseball, and basketball coach at Willamette University and an athletic director at Oregon State University. Playing career Keene graduated from Oregon State U ...

(1894-1977), American college football, baseball and basketball coach *

Spec O'Donnell Walter "Spec" O'Donnell (April 9, 1911 – October 14, 1986) was an American film actor. Biography Born in Fresno, California, in 1911, O'Donnell appeared in more than 190 films between 1923 and 1978. He worked frequently for producer Hal R ...

(1911-1986), American film actor *

Spec Richardson Harold Beland "Spec" Richardson (October 27, 1922 – April 12, 2016) was an American professional baseball executive. He served as the general manager of two Major League Baseball teams, the Houston Astros (1967–75) and San Francisco Giant ...

(1922-2016), former general manager of the Houston Astros Major League Baseball team * Spec Sanders (1919-2003), American National Football League and All-America Football Conference player *

Spec Shea Francis Joseph "Spec" Shea (October 2, 1920 – July 19, 2002) was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1947 to 1955. He played for the New York Yankees from 1947 to 1951 and the Washington Senators from 1952 to 1955. He was known as "The Naugat ...

(1920–2002), American Major League Baseball pitcher

Science and technology

* ''spec'', an antibiotic resistance gene against

spectinomycin Spectinomycin, sold under the tradename Trobicin among others, is an antibiotic useful for the treatment of gonorrhea infections. It is given by injection into a muscle. Common side effects include pain at the area of injection, rash, nausea, f ...

* Spectrum of a ring, a mathematical structure often written as Spec(''R'') * Specifier (linguistics), in syntax * Short for

speculative evolution Speculative evolution is a genre of speculative fiction and an artistic movement focused on hypothetical scenarios in the evolution of life, and a significant form of fictional biology. It is also known as speculative biology and it is referred ...

SPEC

* Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, an organization that produces benchmarks *

Hampton Inn Court at the Steinke Physical Education Center (SPEC) The Hampton Inn Court at the Steinke Physical Education Center (SPEC) is home to A&M-Kingsville Javelinas basketball and volleyball. The building was named in honor of Gil Steinke, a former athletic director and football coach at Texas A&M-Kingsvil ...

, a Texas A&M University basketball and volleyball arena *

Solid phase extraction Solid-phase extraction (SPE) is an extractive technique by which compounds that are dissolved or suspended in a liquid mixture are separated from other compounds in the mixture according to their physical and chemical properties. Analytical labor ...

chromatography

Other uses

* Speculation, the purchase of an asset with the hope that it will become more valuable in the near future *

Spec, Virginia Spec is an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appala ...

, United States, an unincorporated community * '' Columbia Daily Spectator'', a student newspaper nicknamed the Spec

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