English Explanatory Dictionary

modification

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

Pronunciation

/ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ /ˌmɒdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ en-us-modification.ogg

Word forms

modification modifications

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.

Related words

modify modifier

Derived words

automodification biomodification body modification Charette modification demodification Doebner modification Furukawa modification genetic modification geomodification glycomodification hydromodification hypermodification hypomodification micromodification modification enzyme nanomodification overmodification phosphomodification photomodification postmodification posttranslational modification post-translational modification premodification remodification thiomodification undermodification
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