Word Meanings - SPECIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts. 2. The designation

Additional info about word: SPECIFICATION

1. The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts. 2. The designation of particulars; particular mention; as, the specification of a charge against an officer. 3. A written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars, as of charges against a public officer, the terms of a contract, the description of an invention, as in a patent; also, a single article, item, or particular, an allegation of a specific act, as in a charge of official misconduct.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPECIFICATION)

• Definition
• Determination
• limitation
• specification
• restriction

Related words: (words related to SPECIFICATION)

• DEFINITIONAL
  Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining.
• SPECIFICATION
  1. The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts. 2. The designation
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• DEFINITION
  An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence. (more info) 1. The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, the telescope accurate in definition. 2. Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification;
• RESTRICTION
  1. The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds. This is to have the same restriction with all other recreations,that it be made a divertisement. Giv. of Tonque. 2. That which restricts; limitation;
• DETERMINATION
  A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head. (more info) 1. The act of determining, or the state of being determined. 2. Bringing to an end; termination; limit. A speedy determination of that
• RESTRICTIONARY
  Restrictive.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• UNDETERMINATION
  Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• PRESTRICTION
  Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight. Milton.
• DESPECIFICATION
  Discrimination.
• NONLIMITATION
  Want of limitation; failure to limit.
• INDETERMINATION
  1. Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind. Jer. Taylor. 2. Want of fixed or stated direction. Abp. Bramhall.