Usually means: Change or alteration to something.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word modification:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. modification: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. modification: Merriam-Webster
  3. modification: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. modification: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. modification: Collins English Dictionary
  6. modification: Vocabulary.com
  7. Modification, modification, modification: Wordnik
  8. modification: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. modification: Wiktionary
  10. modification: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. modification: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. modification: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. modification: Dictionary.com
  14. modification: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Modification: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Modification: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. modification: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. modification: Rhymezone
  19. modification, modification (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. modification: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. modification: FreeDictionary.org
  22. modification: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. modification: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. modification: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  8. modification: Legal dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modification: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. modification: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  4. modification: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modification: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modification: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete, philosophy) The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being.
noun:  (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in I'm)
noun:  The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.
noun:  The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.
noun:  (biology) A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
noun:  (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language

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