Description vs. Specification
Descriptionnoun
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
Descriptionnoun
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Descriptionnoun
A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
Descriptionnoun
(taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
Descriptionnoun
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Descriptionnoun
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
Descriptionnoun
A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
Descriptionnoun
a statement that represents something in words
Descriptionnoun
the act of describing something
Descriptionnoun
sort or variety;
Descriptionnoun
a spoken or written account of a person, object, or event
Descriptionnoun
the action of giving a spoken or written account
Descriptionnoun
a type or class of people or things
Description
Description is the pattern of narrative development that aims to make vivid a place, object, character, or group. Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration.
Specificationnoun
An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.
Specificationnoun
An act of specifying.
Specificationnoun
The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits.
Specificationnoun
The designation of particulars; particular mention; as, the specification of a charge against an officer.
Specificationnoun
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.
Specificationnoun
A detailed listing or description of the required properties of some object proposed to be built or bought; - usually used in the plural; as, the building specifications require that it withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8; the program specifications require an option to change the menus.
Specificationnoun
a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work
Specificationnoun
naming explicitly
Specificationnoun
(patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and usse of an invention
Specificationnoun
a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement
