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modification

Pronunciation: /ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

The English word “modification” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The act of assessing and prescribing a payment, penalty, price, valuation, etc.
  2. The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being.
  3. The change undergone by a word when used in a construction.
  4. The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.
  5. The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.
  6. A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
  7. A change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.

Etymology

From Middle English modificatioune, from Middle French modification and its etymon Latin modificātiō (“a measuring”), from modificāre (“to limit, control, modify”); see modify. By surface analysis, modify + -ication.

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