modification

  1. Noun.  the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.
  2. Noun.  an alteration or adjustment to something.
  3. Noun.  a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
  4. Noun.  (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
  5. Noun.  (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance ''am'' => '' 'm'' in ''I'm'').

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