spec | (noun) a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work | Synonyms: specification |
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special | (noun) a special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising | - |
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(noun) a television production that features a particular person or work or topic | - |
(noun) a dish or meal given prominence in e.g. a restaurant | - |
specialisation | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty |
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(noun) the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose | Synonyms: specialization |
(noun) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function | Synonyms: differentiation, specialization |
specialiser | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialist, specializer |
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specialism | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, speciality, specialization, specialty |
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(noun) the concentration of your efforts on a particular field of study or occupation | - |
specialist | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialiser, specializer |
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(noun) practices one branch of medicine | Synonyms: medical specialist |
speciality | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, specialization, specialty |
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(noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, peculiarity, specialness, specialty |
(noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, specialty, strength, strong point, strong suit |
specialization | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialty |
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(noun) the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose | Synonyms: specialisation |
(noun) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function | Synonyms: differentiation, specialisation |
specializer | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialiser, specialist |
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specialness | (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, peculiarity, speciality, specialty |
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(noun) the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance | Synonyms: particularity |
specialty | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialization |
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(noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, peculiarity, speciality, specialness |
(noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, speciality, strength, strong point, strong suit |
speciation | (noun) the evolution of a biological species | - |
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specie | (noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: coinage, metal money, mintage |
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species | (noun) a specific kind of something | - |
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(noun) (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed | - |
specific | (noun) a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease | - |
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(noun) a fact about some part (as opposed to general) | Synonyms: particular |
specification | (noun) a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement | Synonyms: stipulation |
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(noun) a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work | Synonyms: spec |
(noun) naming explicitly | - |
(noun) (patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention | - |
specificity | (noun) the quality of being specific rather than general | - |
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(noun) the quality of being specific to a particular organism | - |
specifier | (noun) someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent) | - |
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specimen | (noun) a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes | - |
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(noun) an example regarded as typical of its class | - |
speciousness | (noun) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility | Synonyms: meretriciousness |
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speck | (noun) a very small spot | Synonyms: pinpoint |
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(noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, tinge, touch |
(noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle |
speckle | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, spot |
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specs | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: eyeglasses, glasses, spectacles |
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spectacle | (noun) a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself | - |
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(noun) an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale | - |
(noun) something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight) | - |
spectacles | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: eyeglasses, glasses, specs |
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spectacular | (noun) a lavishly produced performance | - |
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spectator | (noun) a woman's pump with medium heel; usually in contrasting colors for toe and heel | Synonyms: spectator pump |
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(noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, viewer, watcher, witness |
specter | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, spectre, spook, wraith |
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(noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, spectre |
spectinomycin | (noun) an antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea | - |
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spectrality | (noun) Quality of being spectral or ghostly. | - |
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spectre | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spook, wraith |
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(noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter |
spectrogram | (noun) a photographic record of a spectrum | Synonyms: spectrograph |
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spectrograph | (noun) a spectroscope by which spectra can be photographed | - |
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(noun) a photographic record of a spectrum | Synonyms: spectrogram |
spectrometer | (noun) spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer | Synonyms: mass spectrometer |
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spectrometry | (noun) the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra | Synonyms: spectrographic analysis, spectroscopic analysis, spectroscopy, spectrum analysis |
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spectrophotometer | (noun) a photometer for comparing two light radiations wavelength by wavelength | - |
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spectroscope | (noun) an optical instrument for spectrographic analysis | Synonyms: prism spectroscope |
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spectroscopy | (noun) the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra | Synonyms: spectrographic analysis, spectrometry, spectroscopic analysis, spectrum analysis |
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spectrum | (noun) a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities | - |
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(noun) an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave | - |
speculation | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | Synonyms: conjecture |
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(noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: meditation |
(noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
(noun) an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits | Synonyms: venture |
speculativeness | (noun) the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation | - |
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(noun) financial risk | - |
speculator | (noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: plunger |
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(noun) someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts | - |
speculum | (noun) a medical instrument for dilating a bodily passage or cavity in order to examine the interior | - |
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(noun) a mirror (especially one made of polished metal) for use in an optical instrument | - |