Definitions for modification

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modification mod·i·fi·ca·tion

Spelling: [mod-uh-fi-key-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌmɒd ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Modification is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 574 anagrams from letters in modification (acdfiiimnoot).

Definitions for modification

noun

1. an act or instance of modifying.
2. the state of being modified; partial alteration.
3. a modified form; variety.
4. Biology. a change in a living organism acquired from its own activity or environment and not transmitted to its descendants.
5. limitation or qualification.
6. Grammar. the use of a modifier in a construction, or of modifiers in a class of constructions or in a language. the meaning of a modifier, especially as it affects the meaning of the word or other form modified: a change in the phonological shape of a morpheme, word, or other form when it functions as an element in a construction, as the change of not to -n't in doesn't. an adjustment in the form of a word as it passes from one language to another.

Origin of modification

1495-1505; Latin modificātiōn- (stem of modificātiō), equivalent to modificāt(us) (past participle of modificāre; see modify) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for modification

It is not clear if this could lead to a modification of stated U.S. policy that Iran should not have “one centrifuge turning.”

Trafficking is complicated and the source material is subject to “modification.”

No modification of the divine certainty, the entire truth, is possible.

To be clear, these numbers are exactly what each organization reported without manipulation or modification.

It may be asked how far I extend the doctrine of the modification of species.

It was a modification of the high-liner ball-control, and it was new.

RULES ARE SUBJECT TO modification BY THE NEWSWEEK DAILY BEAST COMPANY.

As you say, however, it is not a change but only a modification, since the root idea is the same in each.

With every modification, that nostalgia starts to look and feel more like a dream.

He searched ahead on the hillside above him for a modification of its slope.