Definitions for modifications

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modifications mod·i·fi·ca·tion

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

IPA: /ˌmɒd ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Modifications is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 1079 anagrams from letters in modifications (acdfiiimnoost).

Definitions for modifications

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.
7. an act or instance of modifying.
8. the state of being modified; partial alteration.
9. a modified form; variety.
10. Biology. a change in a living organism acquired from its own activity or environment and not transmitted to its descendants.
11. limitation or qualification.
12. 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 modifications

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

Examples for modifications

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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