Dictionary Definition
modification
Noun
1 the act of making something different (as e.g.
the size of a garment) [syn: alteration, adjustment]
2 slightly modified copy; not an exact copy; "a
modification of last year's model"
3 the grammatical relation that exists when a
word qualifies the meaning of the phrase [syn: qualifying, limiting]
4 an event that occurs when something passes from
one state or phase to another; "the change was intended to increase
sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the
neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit
years ago" [syn: change,
alteration]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified
- an alteration or adjustment to something
- a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring
- a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language
- the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in I'm)
Translations
the act or result of modifying or the condition
of being modified
- German: Änderung , Abänderung , Modifikation
an alteration or adjustment to something
- German: Änderung , Abänderung , Modifikation
a change to an organism as a result of its
environment
- German: Modifikation
a change to a word when it is borrowed by
another language
the change undergone by a word when used in a
construction
Extensive Definition
Modification may refer to:
See also
modification in German: Modifikation
modification in Low German:
Modifikatschoon
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, allophone, allowance, alteration, alveolar, amelioration, analysis, anatomization,
apico-alveolar, apico-dental, apostasy, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, atomization, betterment, bilabial, break, cacuminal, cerebral, cession, change, change of heart, changeableness, check, circumscription,
concession, consonant, constructive
change, continuant,
continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative
change, demarcation,
dental, desynonymization,
deterioration,
deviation, difference, differencing, differentiation,
diphthong, discontinuity, discrimination, disequalization,
disjunction,
dissimilation,
distinction,
distinguishment,
divergence, diversification,
diversion, diversity, division, epenthetic vowel,
exception, exemption, explosive, extenuating
circumstances, fitting,
flip-flop, glide, glottal, glottalization, gradual
change, grain of salt, grant, guttural, hedge, hedging, improvement, individualization,
individuation,
labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, limitation, lingual, liquid, manner of articulation,
melioration, mental
reservation, metamorphosis, mitigation, modulation, monophthong, morphophoneme, mutation, mute, nasal, occlusive, overthrow, palatal, parasitic vowel,
particularization,
peak, personalization,
pharyngeal, pharyngealization,
phone, phoneme, plosive, prothetic vowel,
qualification,
radical change, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reservation, reshaping, restriction, restructuring, retroflex, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, salvo, segmental phoneme, segregation, semivowel, separation, severalization, severance, shift, sonant, sonority, special case, special
treatment, specialization, specialness, specification, speech
sound, stop, sudden change,
surd, switch, syllabic nucleus,
syllabic peak, syllable, tempering, total change,
transformation,
transition,
transition sound, transmogrification,
triphthong, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, velar, violent change, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless
sound, voicing, vowel, waiver, worsening