Specimen Definition

spĕsə-mən
specimens
noun
A part of a whole, or one individual of a class or group, used as a sample or example of the whole, class, or group; typical part, individual, etc.
Webster's New World
An organism, part of an organism, or fossil that has been collected and usually preserved, especially for display or scientific research.
American Heritage Medicine
A (specified kind of) individual or person.
An unsavory specimen.
Webster's New World
A sample, as of urine, sputum, or blood, for analysis.
Webster's New World

(humorous, often preceded with “fine") An eligible man.

Examples: Postcard: Leap Year, 1908, Postcard: Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Noun

Singular:
specimen
Plural:
specimens, specimina

Origin of Specimen

  • Latin example from specere to look at spek- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin specimen (“mark, sign, example"), from speciō (“observe, watch").

    From Wiktionary

Specimen Sentence Examples

  • It was the basis of the earliest specimen of Provençal literature.

  • The aye-aye was discovered by Pierre Sonnerat in 1780, the specimen brought to Paris by that traveller being the only one known until 1860.

  • The wood is variable in quality and, though hard in texture, is less durable than the best oak of British growth; the heart-wood is of a light reddish brown varying to an olive tint; a Canadian specimen weighs 524 lb the cubic foot.

  • Pulling gloves and a bag from his pocket, he proceeded to collect the grisly specimen.

  • When the magnetizing current is twice reversed, so as to complete a cycle, the sum of the two deflections, multiplied by a factor depending upon the sectional area of the specimen and upon the constants of the apparatus, gives the hysteresis for a complete cycle in ergs per cubic centimetre.

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Words Starting With

SSPSPE

Words Ending With

NENMEN

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