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unusual facts about specification



American armored fighting vehicle production during World War II

The US version in British service was the Lee (named after General Lee); the British specification version (a different turret) was the Grant (named after General Grant).

ATA 100

More recently, the international aviation community developed the S1000D standard, an XML specification for preparing, managing, and using equipment maintenance and operations information.

Automatic transmission fluid

There are many specifications for ATF, such as the DEXRON and MERCON series, and the vehicle manufacturer will identify the ATF specification appropriate for each vehicle.

Bell YAH-63

The missile armament specification was later modified to include an alternate load of sixteen laser-guided AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles.

Bristol Bullpup

In 1924 Barnwell had started work on a fighter powered by the Rolls-Royce Falcon to meet the requirements of specification F.17/24.

ColorSync

Profile First Aid allows you to repair ColorSync color profiles so they conform to the International Color Consortium specification.

Communications Specification for Fitness Equipment

CSAFE (Communications Specification for Fitness Equipment) is a fitness industry-wide communications specification developed in 1997 for exercise equipment.

Covenanter tank

Nuffield's A16 (and the A14) design was found to be too expensive, and in 1939 a cheaper and lighter cruiser tank - under General Staff specification A13 Mk III Cruiser Mark V - was chosen to be developed.

Design rule for Camera File system

Design rule for Camera File system (DCF) is a JEITA specification (number CP-3461) which defines a file system for digital cameras, including the directory structure, file naming method, character set, file format, and metadata format.

Dewoitine D.750

In 1937, the French Air Ministry drew up a specification for a twin-engined torpedo bomber to operate from the French Navy's two planned new aircraft carriers, the Joffre and Painlevé.

DoJa

DoJa profile is a Java application environment specification for DoCoMo's i-mode mobile phone.

ECX

Embedded Compact Extended, a small form factor Single Board Computer specification

EMV

IC card systems based on the EMV specification are being phased in across the world, under names such as "IC Credit" and "Chip and PIN".

European route E71

As of August 2011, Hrvatske autoceste and Autocesta Rijeka - Zagreb operators of the A1 motorway signposted the A1 south of Karlovac as the E71 all the way south to the Dugopolje interchange connecting to the Podi interchange of the D1, contrary to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) specification of the route.

Exchangeable image file format

The Exif specification describes the RIFF file format used for WAV audio files, and defines a number of tags for storing meta information such as artist, copyright, creation date, and more in these files.

Fairey N.9

In 1917 Fairey Aviation produced two separate designs to meet Admiralty Specification N.2(a) for a two-seat carrier-based seaplane for the Royal Naval Air Service, one powered by a Rolls-Royce Falcon engine, and a larger aircraft powered by a more powerful Sunbeam Maori.

File URI scheme

(The double slash // should always appear in a file URL according to the specification, but in practice many Web browsers allow you to omit it)

Gewehr 43

The army issued a specification to various manufacturers, and both Mauser and Walther submitted prototypes that were very similar.

Gyrodyne

In Britain, Dr. James Allan Jamieson Bennett, Chief Engineer of the Cierva Autogiro Company, in 1936 conceived an intermediate type of rotorcraft, which he named "gyrodyne" and which was tendered to the British Government in response to an Air Ministry specification.

Hopfner HA-11/33

The Hopfner HA-11/33 was an amphibious flying boat built in Austria in 1933 to a specification by the Dr. Oetker company.

Image file formats

Adobe's Digital Negative (DNG) specification is an attempt at standardizing a raw image format to be used by cameras, or for archival storage of image data converted from undocumented raw image formats, and is used by several niche and minority camera manufacturers including Pentax, Leica, and Samsung.

Information set

XML Information Set or Infoset, a W3C specification dealing with XML documents

IPTC Information Interchange Model

These were defined originally in 1979, and revised significantly in 1991 to be part of the IIM, but the concept really advanced in 1994 when Adobe Systems defined a specification for actually embedding the metadata into digital image files — yielding "IPTC headers."

KDM

Knowledge Discovery Metamodel, OMG specification for architecture-driven modernization

Knowledge Based Software Assistant

With the MVC architecture the underlying model was always the knowledge base which was a meta-model description of the specification and implementation languages.

Layer 2 MPLS VPN

The BGP-based type is based on a draft specification by Kireeti Kompella, from Juniper Networks.

MagicDraw

The domain specific language (DSL) customization engine allows for adapting MagicDraw to a specific profile and modeling domain, thus allowing the customization of multiple GUIs, model initialization, adding semantic rules, and creating one’s own specification dialogs and smart manipulators.

Melvin Conway

In the 1970s and 1980s, he was involved with the MUMPS medical computer language and system language standard specification for the National Bureau of Standards.

Metal Building Manufacturers Association

It has been reviewed by American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and will be published by them as an interpretation of, and an extension to, the provisions of the 2005 AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings.

Mobile Station Roaming Number

A MSRN is assigned for every mobile terminated call, not only the calls where the terminating MS lives on a different MSC than the originating MS. Although this seems unnecessary since many vendors' VLR's are integrated with the MSC, the GSM specification indicates that the MSC and VLR (Visitor Location Register) do not need to reside on the same switch.

Open Metering System

Concerning the created Open Metering System Specification (OMS specification or OMSS) a subset out of the existing Meter-Bus standard series (EN 13757) was selected, definitions were made where selections or ambiguities were possible, to streamline the interpretation by different producers.

Over-the-air

OTA bitmap, a proprietary specification for black and white images for mobile phones

Panasas

Parallel NFS (pNFS) was part of the NFS version 4.1 specification, published by the Internet Engineering Task Force as an Request for Comments (RFC) in January, 2010.

Parnall

The final Parnall aircraft was an open two-seater trainer derivative of the Heck to Air Ministry Specification T.1/37 named the Parnall 382, later the Heck III.

Performance testing

A type of Physical test covering a wide range of engineering or functional evaluations where a material, product, or system is not specified by detailed material or component specifications: rather, emphasis is on the final measurable performance characteristics.

Pforth

PForth started out as HFORTH, which was used in connection with the Hierarchical Music Specification Language, a music experimentation language developed by Phil Burk, Larry Polansky and David Rosenboom.

Rhythmicon

More recently, composer Nick Didkovsky designed and programmed a virtual Rhythmicon using Java Music Specification Language and JSyn.

Rich Media Environment

Rich Media Environment is an OMA specification that provides a rich graphical and media experience for mobile applications.

Rogers Cadenhead

Rogers Cadenhead (b. April 13, 1967 in Dallas, Texas, USA) is a computer book author and web publisher who is currently chairman of the RSS Advisory Board, a group that assists developers in using the RSS 2.0 specification.

RP-1

John D. Clark mentions in "Ignition!" that while the RP-1 specification was being developed, Rocketdyne was experimenting with diethyl cyclohexane.

Sentinel-class cruiser

They were part of a larger order for eight scout cruisers, split between four dockyards, each of which designed their own ships to match the Admiralty’s specification, which was for a cruiser capable of reaching 25 knots, carrying ten 12 pounder guns, eight 3 pounder guns and two torpedo tubes.

The Portland Group

PGI has more recently participated in the specification of the new standard OpenACC directives for GPU computing, and has released a compiler for the OpenCL language on multi-core ARM processors.

TTFF

Time to first fix, a specification detailing the time required for a GPS receiver to acquire a position

UML

Unified Modeling Language, an object modeling and specification language used in software engineering

Unified Modeling Language

During the same month the UML Partners formed a Semantics Task Force, chaired by Cris Kobryn and administered by Ed Eykholt, to finalize the semantics of the specification and integrate it with other standardization efforts.

Virtopsy

As examinations typically are performed under the legal and task restraints of investigative authorities such as courts, prosecutors, district attorneys or police, there are constraints as to cost, time, objectivity and task specification depending on local law.

WapTV

The WTVML markup language is a heavily extended superset of the WAP Forum WML 1.3 specification.

William A. Barnett

In consumer demand and production modelling, he originated the Laurent series approach to specification design and the seminonparametric approach using the Müntz–Szász theorem.

William Quan Judge

The organization originating from the faction of Olcott and Besant is based nowadays in India and known as the Theosophical Society - Adyar, while the organization managed by Judge is known nowadays simply as the Theosophical Society, but often with the specification, "international headquarters, Pasadena, California".

XCRI

eLearning commentator Stephen Downes has criticised XCRI for developing a new XML specification rather than basing it on RSS, which would enable courses to be aggregated using existing technologies.


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