Meaning and Specification

Meaning

Meaning noun - The idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action.

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Specification and meaning are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Specification" instead a noun "Meaning".

Nearby Words: mean, means, meaningful, meaningless, meaningly

Specification noun - Naming explicitly.

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Meaning and specification are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Meaning" instead a noun "Specification".

Also, while most cellphones adhere by the ITU 3G video call specification, Apple chose to implement their own Facetime system on the iPhone instead, meaning that an iPhone can never accept video calls from 3G video-compliant phones, nor can it place direct video calls to 3G video-compliant phones.

Source: Video Phone
Unlike EISA, PCI wasn't backwards-compatible with ISA electrically, but PCI cards could co-exist with ISA and VLB, and Intel deliberately made the specification easy to implement, meaning that a lot of the barriers to acceptance that MCA had were gone.

Source: Useful Notes / IBM Personal Computer

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