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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of specify.

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Examples

  • In fact, the term specifies that point when a falling object reaches zero acceleration.

    The Wall Jeff Long 2005

  • Financial Times speaks to real estate developers to understand what the term specifies and what are they doing to support this cause to benefit middle class strata.

    The Economic Times 2010

  • If the label specifies sodium, multiply the amount by 2.5.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • Fei began by explaining there are no engineering ethics in China. [my emphasis] As a sub-discipline, the term specifies the responsibilities of engineers as professionals.

    Ethical Technology 2009

  • This term specifies the orientation of the oscillation plane of these waves relative to their direction of propagation.

    Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com 2009

  • And he’s not a red cherry because our definition specifies that a red cherry is “currently interested.”

    Hot Prospects Bill Good 2008

  • And he’s not a red cherry because our definition specifies that a red cherry is “currently interested.”

    Hot Prospects Bill Good 2008

  • Since the Mandatum may still be done outside the Mass, another new rubric specifies that in such case, the Gospel of the Mass is to be repeated at the beginning, as in the Missal of St. Pius V.

    Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum 2009

  • Memoirs, Godwin specifies as what "I have for ever lost" through the untimely death of Wollstonecraft the redesigning of his mind that was in a preliminary stage through his daily proximity to the intellectual tact that characterized her mind.

    Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality' 2008

  • Consumers whose pets experience unusual reactions following treatment should wash the animal with soap, unless the product label specifies otherwise, and immediately contact a veterinarian, the EPA says.

    Fur Flies Over Flea Treatments 2009

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