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