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modification
/ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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What does modification mean?
noun
- The change undergone by a word when used in a construction.
- The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.
- The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.
More meanings (4)
noun
- A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
- A change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
- (obsolete) The act of assessing and prescribing a payment, penalty, price, valuation, etc.
- (obsolete) The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being.
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IPA pronunciation
/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.
Some more specific vesicant, some modification of mustard gas, might arise, limited in attack to certain portions of the human being.
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The idea of the idea of each modification of the human body does not involve an adequate knowledge of the human mind.
That many and grave objections may be advanced against the theory of descent with modification through natural selection, I do not deny.
Most of the craftsmen simply copy the current forms, introducing perhaps now and then an additional scroll, or some other slight modification.