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Word: modification (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

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

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