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mil-spec

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English

Syllables
mil-spec
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of the grade and quality used by the military.

American usage

Example Sentences

Etymology

Clipped compound: clipping of military specification. Originally capitalized (MIL-SPEC) in the extensive lexicon of initialisms, acronyms, and clippings of the U.S. (and other) militaries and defense industries, which began in the nineteenth century but greatly proliferated in the mid-twentieth century and has remained large and growing since then. More at Wikipedia under United States Military Standard.

Usage

Inflected Forms

mil spec (canonical) milspec (alternative) mil spec (alternative)

Questions

What does mil-spec mean?
Of the grade and quality used by the military.
Where does mil-spec come from?
Clipped compound: clipping of military specification. Originally capitalized (MIL-SPEC) in the extensive lexicon of initialisms, acronyms, and clippings of the U.S. (and other) militaries and defense industries, which began in the nineteenth century but greatly proliferated in the mid-twentieth century and has remained large and growing since then. More at Wikipedia under United States Military Standard.

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