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"built to spec" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It typically means something that is created or modified according to specifications, or to meet certain requirements. For example: "She designed the software to be built to spec so it could be integrated with other existing software."
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SOFIA is underway, but the new sensor was just commissioned, so it'll be a while before it can be built to spec and integrated with the rest of the platform.
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Not only is the computer built to your spec, the cases can be gilded with gold, adorned with diamonds or cubic zirconia, and probably if you pay the company enough, can be blessed by His Holiness.
He has five different studios at his home in Scotland — one has been built to his specs from the ground up — and owns pipe organs that are digitally controlled and robots that play the drums.
He cleared the lot and spent two years building a new exhibition space: five floors, thirty thousand square feet, built to LEED specs, with an expanse of skylights and half a dozen exhibition areas, both large and small.
Want a custom theater, built to your specs?
In 2004 he bought a marsh adventure craft, a 640-horsepower Recon Ranger airboat built to military specs.
We had to find a real one we could use for long-shots, but the one that I rode was actually built to the specs of the original bike.
The Traction Avant was not built to a radical spec sheet: targets were set for a modest top speed of 100kph (62mph), and 10 litres of fuel consumed for every 100km travelled.
Kinect has been dogged throughout its life by latency and recognition problems, but the issue isn't always the technology it's that human bodies aren't built to an exact spec, and everybody uses theirs a little differently.
Kinect has been dogged throughout its life by latency and recognition problems, but the issue isn't always the technology – it's that human bodies aren't built to an exact spec, and everybody uses theirs a little differently.
Both your picks are high-performance laptops built to American Mil-spec standards.
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