In a sociotechnical sense or context.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kern

(colloquial) Clipping of specification. / (colloquial) Clipping of speculation. / Clipping of specialization. / Clipping of specialist. / Clipping of special. / Clipping of spectrum.

To scratch. / To make shift, to manage to get along. / (intransitive, UK, dialect) To scuttle.