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modification

/ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

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What does modification mean?

noun

  1. The change undergone by a word when used in a construction.
  2. The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.
  3. The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.
More meanings (4)

noun

  1. A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
  2. A change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
  3. (obsolete) The act of assessing and prescribing a payment, penalty, price, valuation, etc.
  4. (obsolete) The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being.

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/ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

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The main modification in design was the abolition of the external keel, and in this the later Zeppelin principles were adopted.
George WhaleBritish Airships, Past, Present, and FutureProject Gutenberg ebook #762
Some more specific vesicant, some modification of mustard gas, might arise, limited in attack to certain portions of the human being.
Victor LefebureThe Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and WarProject Gutenberg ebook #1272
More book examples (3)
The idea of the idea of each modification of the human body does not involve an adequate knowledge of the human mind.
Benedictus de SpinozaEthics — Part 2Translated by R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro) ElwesProject Gutenberg ebook #920
That many and grave objections may be advanced against the theory of descent with modification through natural selection, I do not deny.
Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeProject Gutenberg ebook #1228
Most of the craftsmen simply copy the current forms, introducing perhaps now and then an additional scroll, or some other slight modification.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307