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mil-spec

mil-spec adjective: of the grade and quality used by the military.

Adjective

mil spec (not comparable)

  1. (US) Of the grade and quality used by the military.
    • a mil-spec pistol

Forms of mil-spec

alternative formmilspec
alternative formmil spec

Origin of mil-spec

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.

Questions about mil-spec

What does mil-spec mean?
Mil-spec means of the grade and quality used by the military.
What part of speech is mil-spec?
Mil-spec is an adjective.

Words near mil-spec in the dictionary

  1. mil'tary
  2. MIL-CD
  3. MIL-CDs
  4. mil-dot
  5. mil-dots
  6. mil-spec
  7. mil.
  8. Mila
  9. milab
  10. Milabena
  11. milabs

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