Mil-spec

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of the grade and quality used by the military. US, not-comparable

    "a mil-spec pistol"

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military grade

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.

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