modification

Noun

Meaning

The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

change limiting adjustment qualifying alteration amendment reformation transfiguration rescript turn modulation transmutation readjustment difference changing

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Antonyms

deliverance accuracy delivery decide correspondence conservation

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Hypernyms

change copy occurrence happening occurrent natural event

Hyponyms

nativity twinkle death development play increase

Phrases with the word

experience modification minor modification chemical modification gene modification go through modification small modification

Anagrams

domification

Examples

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. Publilius Syrus

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. Elihu Root

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification. Charles Darwin

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy. Samuel Alexander

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Abraham Lincoln

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time. Alfred Russel Wallace

Close letter words and terms

modificable modificand modificate modification of dna modification of phenotype modificative