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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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