Modification Meaning
/ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of assessing and prescribing a payment, penalty, price, valuation, etc.
nounThe form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being.
Sentence Examples
Through genetic modification, we can improve crops.
Open source is a philosophy that encourages openness, sharing, and modification.
Considerable modification of the existing system is needed.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The teacher made a ____ to the exam by adding a new section.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The engineers suggested a minor ____ to the engine's design to significantly improve its overall fuel efficiency and performance.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The teacher made a ____ to the exam by adding a new section.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The engineers suggested a minor ____ to the engine's design to significantly improve its overall fuel efficiency and performance.