Modification Definition

mŏdə-fĭ-kāshən
modifications
noun
modifications
A modifying or being modified.
Webster's New World
A change or a result produced by modifying.
New modifications in the car's design.
American Heritage
A change undergone by a word that is borrowed from another language.
American Heritage
A phonological change undergone by a word or morpheme when it is used in a construction, as the change of will to 'll in they'll.
American Heritage

An alteration or adjustment to something.

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Noun

Singular:
modification
Plural:
modifications

Origin of Modification

  • Borrowing from French modification, from Latin modificatio (“a measuring"), from modificare (“to limit, control, modify"); see modify.

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Modification Sentence Examples

  • Today, genetic modification efforts are much more directed.

  • Davy on the decomposition of the solutions of salts by the voltaic current were turned to account in the water voltameter telegraph of Sdmmering and the modification of it proposed by Schweigger, and in a similar method proposed by Coxe, in which a solution of salts was substituted for water.

  • The wall of the tube is very thin and delicate, and does not seem to be composed of cellulose or any modification of it.

  • A very interesting modification was also proposed in the same letter, viz.

  • In any case, there are other ways to use genetic modification to get energy.

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Words Starting With

MMOMOD

Words Ending With

NONION

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modification

Words Starting With M and Ending With N

Starts With M & Ends With NStarts With MO & Ends With NStarts With M & Ends With ON

Word Length

12 Letter Words12 Letter Words Starting With M12 Letter Words Ending With N