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Spec

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Spec may refer to:

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

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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
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