Spec

Spec may refer to:

• Specification (technical standard), an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service
  • datasheet, or "spec sheet"
• Specialist resp. Specialization

People

• Spec Harkness (1887-1952), American professional baseball pitcher
• Spec Keene (1894-1977), American college football, baseball and basketball coach
• Spec O'Donnell (1911-1986), American film actor
• Spec Richardson (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 (1920–2002), American Major League Baseball pitcher

Science and technology

• spec, an antibiotic resistance gene against spectinomycin
• Spectrum of a ring, a mathematical structure often written as Spec(R)
• Specifier (linguistics), in syntax
• Short for speculative evolution

SPEC

• Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, an organization that produces benchmarks
• Hampton Inn Court at the Steinke Physical Education Center (SPEC), a Texas A&M University basketball and volleyball arena
• Solid phase extraction chromatography

Other uses

• Speculation, the purchase of an asset with the hope that it will become more valuable in the near future
• Spec, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
• Columbia Daily Spectator, a student newspaper nicknamed the Spec

See also

• Specs (disambiguation)
• Spec racing
• Spec script
• Spec's Music, a defunct South Florida-based retail music and video rental chain
• Spec's Wine, Spirits & Finer Foods, a Texas-based liquor store chain