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/ˌmɑdəfəˈkeɪʃən/
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[ UK /mˌɒdɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /mˌɒdɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
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an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
the change was intended to increase sales
the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago
this storm is certainly a change for the worse -
slightly modified copy; not an exact copy
a modification of last year's model - the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
How To Use modification In A Sentence
- The look lasts around 24 hours before the saline is absorbed into the body and is part of the growing Japanese body modification scene. The Sun
- Baffler editors have called commodification of dissent stretches back to Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and is alive and well in what he calls the "alienation market" in which films like Fahrenheit 9 / 11 either already have or are destined to make bundles (relatively speaking, of course). GreenCine Daily
- This would include both goods that are transshipped without modification and goods that are exported after value-added processing. Ian Fletcher: Why a Flat Tariff on All U.S. Imports Would Work
- MR. BELL: Well, we have informed the Congress that the part one agreement already rose to the threshold, if you will, of representing a change to the treaty -- what we call a substantive modification -- and therefore, would require congressional approval. Briefing By Robert Bell On Helsinki Agreements
- It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
- The corrector is a modification of the Crank - Nicolson equation.
- Adopting, the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding, Schonfeld's modification of Airy's formulæ, he introduced into his equations a fifth unknown quantity expressive of a possible stellar drift in galactic longitude. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
- He perceived that many forms had been subjected to what he calls degeneration, or, as we say, modification, and that the progress from the simple to the complex was by no means direct. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
- Using hydroponics, inorganic fertiliser, electric light and genetic modification we could in theory feed the entire world from a multi-storey farm the size of Wales.
- This makes the task of introducing tolerance to parasites or disease via genetic modification exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
