Mil-spec
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Of the grade and quality used by the military. US, not-comparable
"a mil-spec pistol"
Etymology
Clipped compound: clipping of military specification. Originally capitalized (MIL-SPEC) in the extensive lexicon of initialisms, acronyms, and clippings of the U.S. (and other) militaries and defense industries, which began in the nineteenth century but greatly proliferated in the mid-twentieth century and has remained large and growing since then. More at Wikipedia under United States Military Standard.