| 单词 | modification |
| 释义 | modification /mod'euh fi kay"sheuhn/, n. 1. an act or instance of modifying. 2. the state of being modified; partial alteration. 3. a modified form; variety. 4. Biol. a change in a living organism acquired from its own activity or environment and not transmitted to its descendants. 5. limitation or qualification. 6. Gram. a. the use of a modifier in a construction, or of modifiers in a class of constructions or in a language. b. the meaning of a modifier, esp. as it affects the meaning of the word or other form modified: Limitation is one kind of modification. c. a change in the phonological shape of a morpheme, word, or other form when it functions as an element in a construction, as the change of not to -n't in doesn't. d. an adjustment in the form of a word as it passes from one language to another. [1495-1505; < L modification- (s. of modificatio), equiv. to modificat(us) (ptp. of modificare; see MODIFY) + -ion- -ION] |
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