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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.

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  1. n. 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.
  2. n. the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
  3. n. slightly modified copy; not an exact copy
  4. n. the word/grammatical">grammatical word/relation">relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
  5. n. an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
  6. 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. Bentley.
  7. The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; amodified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, themodification of an opinion, or of a machine; the variousmodifications of light. Bentley.
  8. n:100 n. word/slightly">slightly word/modified">modified copy; not an exact copy n. the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase