modification
nounUS /ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ · UK /ˌmɒdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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.
7 senses
- 1The act of assessing and prescribing a payment, penalty…
- 2The form of existence belonging to a particular object…
- 3The change undergone by a word when used in a construction.
- 4The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.
- 5The act of making a change to something while keeping…
- 6A change to an organism as a result of its environment…
- 7A change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
Obsolete The act of assessing and prescribing a payment, penalty, price, valuation, etc.
- Wherein his highnes commandement is, that a graue, wiſe, ⁊ ſage man, ſhalbe appointed pꝛeſident, who may haue yͤ ouerſight of theſe boũds, ⁊ be anſwerable therefoꝛe to the biſhop, his coũſell ⁊ ſynode, ⁊ he to be reſpected reaſonably foꝛ his paines, at the modification of ſtipends: […]1585, Treason Pretended against the King of Scots, […], London: […] Thomas Nelson, […], →OCLC, page 19:
- Mekle Kindeass 2 b. 1 f. and £3 12s 1d . . . . and whatever augmentation . . be ye lords commissioners . . . . for modificaton of stipends and plantation of kirks . . . .1633, “No. 64, 1633.—Paper, well preserved, with Bishop’s and other signatures.”, in W[illiam] Macgill, compiler, Old Ross-shire and Scotland as Seen in the Tain and Balnagown Documents, Inverness: Northern Counties Newspaper and Printing and Publishing Company, published 1909, →OCLC, pages 33–34:
1 more example
- When the decree of modification is pronounced, the Teind Court, at the same time, remits to the junior Lord Ordinary to prepare a scheme of locality; i. e. an allocation of the modified stipend on the several heritors or others liable therefor; […]1838, William Bell, “Augmentation, Process of”, in A Dictionary and Digest of the Law of Scotland, […], Edinburgh: John Anderson, […] Bell & Bradfute, […]; London: Saunders & Benning, →OCLC, page 75:
Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences Obsolete The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being.
- Pleasure is the business of woman's life, according to the present modification of society […]1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The change undergone by a word when used in a construction.
The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.
The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.
- behavior modification officer
- Jim's modification to the radio's tuning resulted in clearer sound.
Biology, Natural sciences A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
- Due to his sunbathing, Jim's body experienced modifications: he got a tan.
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
- The Chinese word kòutóu had a modification made to become the English kowtow.
- Derived terms
27 terms
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, restomod, thiomodification, undermodification