The phrase "a specification for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a detailed description or requirement for a particular project, product, or process.
Example: "The engineer provided a specification for the new software system to ensure all requirements were met."
Alternatives: "a description of" or "a set of requirements for".
Since October 2015, building regulations have provided a specification for accessible, adaptable homes.
Hence, a user-directed study in 2000 produced a specification for the interface.
(1) A method for translating design requirements into a specification for material and process.
In this case, π(D) is used as a specification for a procedural graph searching conformant planning algorithm.
sMAP is a specification for a protocol which easily and quickly exposes and publishes time-series data from a wide variety of sensors simply and flexibly.
The study, over the next six months or so, will aim to come up with a site, a specification for the hall, a method of funding it, and a structure to manage it.
This kind of animation has become such a hot area that the Moving Picture Experts Group (the multimedia compression group behind the MP3 audio standard) has published a specification for facial and body animation that developers can adhere to.
It also includes a specification, for each world in W, of some subset of W as the worlds that are "accessible" to that world.
The group has published a specification for a mobile "widget," a simple type of phone application that displays live updates of limited data, like the current temperature.
"If at an industrial level we're doing 20 wedding cakes a week in royal icing, it's different – we would want our icing right and we'd give [suppliers] a specification for how we want our icing".
Ideally, you'd be able to start with a specification for the network behavior that you wanted and then express that behavior in some kind of high-level network-control language.
