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Definition :

Specification, a particular and detailed account of a thing; also, a description of a patent with the object of putting the public in full possession of the inventor's secret, so that any person may be in a condition to avail himself of it when the period of exclusive privilege has expired. See LETTERS-PATENT.

As to indexes of specifications for the public use, see s. 46 of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907 (as amended by the Patents and Designs Act of 1932); and s. 7 for official investigation of old specifications of less than fifty years' date on application for a patent.

It means a description of an article or process as far as practicable by reference to its nature, quality, strength, purity, composition, quantity, dimensions, weight, grade, durability, origin, age, material, mode of manufacture or other characteristics to distinguish it from any other article or process. [Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986), s. 2(s)