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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
modification
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ During the course of argument Mr. Gardiner suggested certain alternative modifications to the Woolwich principle as initially enunciated by him.
▪ Although of a somewhat specialized nature, with certain modifications.
further
▪ In 1996, a further modification to the system was agreed, giving regional governments important new responsibilities to raise tax revenues.
▪ In this time, you can file new applications if further modifications to your idea strike.
▪ It will undoubtedly need further refinement and modification in the light of consultations and of experience.
▪ No further modifications were made to these cars.
genetic
▪ So we have a convenient animal to study for which there are also real benefits of cloning and genetic modification.
▪ Many people argue that we need genetic modification of crops and animals in order to feed the world.
▪ Meanwhile international seed suppliers and scientists have admitted that contamination of crops by genetic modification is probably widespread.
▪ The result is an organism whose genes have been modified to provide the desired characteristics. Genetic modification is inevitable.
late
▪ Action: The latest modification record must always appear at the top of the list.
▪ In most fossil deposits, the later stages of modification depicted in Fig. 1.2 assume greater importance.
▪ Table 3 shows a list of units and details of their later modification at national level.
major
▪ Local boats could not fish much deeper without major modifications.
▪ Assessing those effects of global change which will be large scale and cause major modifications to both renewable and non-renewable resources.
▪ If the recording process lacks substance, is grossly time-consuming, or meaningless, then there must be major modifications.
▪ Detailed design for major modifications on the Ninian Southern and Central platforms was nearly complete at the year end.
minor
▪ The principal results in Section 17.3 go over to the more general case with only minor modifications.
▪ Since neither of the assumptions is normally valid, two minor modifications of the basic model are required.
▪ A template had been forged which was subject to only minor modifications over time.
▪ The engine will fit straight into your Land Rover with minor modifications to fuel lines and wiring and exhaust front pipe.
▪ This consideration has resulted in continuation of the same procedures with some minor modifications for the second phase of pilot schemes.
▪ Participants reported that most workshops were very useful as they stood or needed minor modification.
necessary
▪ In this process, the contents, forms and operations of national sovereignty should undergo necessary modifications.
▪ Ask yourself what you would do differently and then make the necessary modifications.
only
▪ The principal results in Section 17.3 go over to the more general case with only minor modifications.
▪ A template had been forged which was subject to only minor modifications over time.
▪ These were the only modifications made on these cars before the war.
▪ This constitution survived with only slight modifications until the Municipal Reform Act of 1835.
other
▪ If so, is the excision of the unenforceable part capable of being achieved without other addition or modification?
▪ Like the stoplist, the golist can also be displayed or printed out for consideration prior to updating or other modification.
▪ Can this be removed simply, or are there other modifications to be made.
slight
▪ I do however have orders for two more with slight modifications.
▪ We apologize to everyone else who has the slightest complaint or modification regarding the first annual Tucson Musicians Register.
▪ A slight modification of the above example will give us an instance of a deduction that is not valid.
▪ A slight modification of the procedure will enable us to add equality constraints.
▪ This constitution survived with only slight modifications until the Municipal Reform Act of 1835.
▪ The geographical distribution of both doctors and hospitals has remained in favour of the upper socio-economic groups with only very slight modifications.
■ NOUN
behavior
▪ The term behavior modification is misleading because it refers to a specific technique among many techniques.
▪ This is indeed conditioning training-#behavior modification with a vengeance.
▪ As it did for Emery, behavior modification, or performance management, worked.
▪ Today we could view this as a story which exemplifies behavior modification through adverse stimuli: the red flags.
▪ There is a small group of parents who are concerned with behavior modification.
▪ We have a level system; behavior modification is our basis.
behaviour
▪ For more on the mechanics of doing this see Behaviour modification on page 16.
▪ Experimental analysis of behaviour; Behaviour modification.
▪ The eleventh method, behaviour modification, is less demanding in terms of complex causes and offers a simpler approach to tackling problem people.
▪ See Behaviour modification on page 16.
▪ You don't even need to know much about the theories behind behaviour modification.
■ VERB
include
▪ These can include modification to products, changes to packaging, etc.
▪ Behavioural techniques Most treatment programmes include behavioural modification techniques, making the patient's access to pleasurable activities contingent on weight gain.
involve
▪ Acceptance there involved long trials and modifications.
▪ While confidentiality protects against the passive monitoring of data, mechanisms for integrity must prevent active attacks involving the modification of data.
▪ In contrast, the production route involves the modification of land and its relatively immediate sale.
▪ As descent always involves modification, resemblance decreases as a shared ancestor recedes into the past.
lead
▪ Greater agricultural mechanisation has led to considerable modification of this landscape and larger arable fields now occur in the area.
make
▪ The programs were tried out extensively with my own students, and from their feedback I made several modifications.
▪ Ask yourself what you would do differently and then make the necessary modifications.
▪ The production system is more capital intensive and rigid, making modifications expensive.
▪ By so doing they can often make modifications which buy off subsequent opposition.
need
▪ These cars already had conduit gear and did not need modification.
▪ I still think there needs to be modifications.
▪ Many people argue that we need genetic modification of crops and animals in order to feed the world.
▪ Our body clock as well as our habits will need modification.
▪ The simple association of degradation and aggradation of beaches with wave type needs some modification.
▪ Pupils with less severe hearing impairments may also need modifications to the requirements, but of a less far-reaching nature.
▪ While some basic variables remain infeasible, the rule for selection of the variable to leave the basis needs modification.
▪ Competitive strategies therefore need regular review and modification within the realistic rate of change defined by the nature of the industry.
require
▪ The information derived requires modification to create a computationally useful formulation of the information.
▪ Since neither of the assumptions is normally valid, two minor modifications of the basic model are required.
▪ An interesting piece of biological foresight, no doubt requiring many physiological modifications.
▪ Adoption of this view requires a small modification to the sketch of the patterns of linguistic construction given in Chapter 1.
▪ So it seems that Ras can be activated by merely increasing the total cellular concentration of activator, without requiring receptor-dependent modification.
▪ A majority of two-thirds was required to pass constitutional modifications, and the result was 364 votes to 70.
▪ These are students who have organised themselves to undertake surveys of buildings requiring modification for full public access.
▪ We could in fact formulate a priority which required this possibility of modification.
suggest
▪ Other studies have suggested purely postsynaptic modifications.
▪ I offer but one suggested modification.
▪ This suggests substantial modification to past practices which seem to have involved fairly rigid directives or administratively complex individual project schemes.
▪ During the course of argument Mr. Gardiner suggested certain alternative modifications to the Woolwich principle as initially enunciated by him.
▪ Each of these suggests appropriate modifications to the unit - perhaps along the lines given in the right-hand column above.
undergo
▪ In this process, the contents, forms and operations of national sovereignty should undergo necessary modifications.
▪ The reactors are similar in design to the Chernobyl plant but have undergone a number of modifications since 1986.
use
▪ This is then made into a gasoline which existing car engines will be able to use without modification.
▪ Fasting gastric electrical control activity was recorded and analysed using a modification of the method described by Van der Schee etal.
▪ The formula was to be used, with suitable modifications, right up to and occasionally beyond the 1940s.
▪ The information obtained could be used for the modification of the course under development - formative evaluation directed towards the educational process.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The editor suggested a few modifications to the text.
▪ The equipment can be used without modification.
▪ The new modifications made it the finest of aircraft.
▪ Volvo made modifications to the car to ensure passenger safety.
▪ We need to make some modifications to our teaching program.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And finally, the modifications of the bones of the prey.animals might also be predator-specific.
▪ It took effect a year ago and is a modification to the federal funeral rule enacted in 1984.
▪ Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King's real power.
▪ The crews made on-the-spot modifications to increase protection, firepower, or creature comforts.
▪ The second plan was a modification of this.
▪ There is no modification needed to the bulkhead.
▪ This is done by a small modification to the routine described earlier in this chapter.
▪ This treaty was ratified at Calais on 24 October 1360, with one important modification.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Modification

Modification \Mod`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. modificatio a measuring: cf. F. modification. See Modify.]

  1. The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine.
    --Bentley.

    Syn: change, alteration, adjustment.

  2. Something which has been modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; as, the various modifications of light; the latest modification of the operating system crashes less frequently.

    Syn: model[8].

  3. (Gram.) The alteration of the meaning of a word or phrase by another word or phrase; -- usually a restriction of the scope of the word modified; as, in the phrase ``a billion dollars is a relatively small sum to spend on cancer research'' the modification of small by relatively is needed to make the sentence accurate, rather than ludicrous.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
modification

c.1500, in philosophy, from Middle French modification (14c.) and directly from Latin modificationem (nominative modificatio) "a measuring," noun of action from past participle stem of modificare (see modify). Meaning "alteration to an object to bring it up to date" is from 1774. Biological sense is attested by 1896.

Wiktionary
modification

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

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WordNet
modification

  1. n. the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) [syn: alteration, adjustment]

  2. slightly modified copy; not an exact copy; "a modification of last year's model"

  3. the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase [syn: qualifying, limiting]

  4. an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago" [syn: change, alteration]

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Wikipedia
Modification

Modification may refer to:

  • Modifications of school work for students with special educational needs
  • Modifications (genetics), changes in appearance arising from changes in the environment
  • Posttranslational modifications, changes to proteins arising from protein biosynthesis
  • Modding, modifying hardware or software
    • Mod (video gaming)
    • Modified car
  • Body modification
  • Grammatical modifier
  • Home modifications
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Usage examples of "modification".

We shall thus see that a large amount of hereditary modification is at least possible, and, what is equally or more important, we shall see how great is the power of man in accumulating by his Selection successive slight variations.

Therefore I can see no difficulty, under changing conditions of life, in natural selection accumulating slight modifications of instinct to any extent, in any useful direction.

As its manifesto and program are practically identical with those of the Communist Party of America, while all its members are likewise affiliated with the Third or Moscow International, the foregoing characterization of the Communist Party applies without essential modification to the Communist Labor Party.

Although new and important modifications may not arise from reversion and analogous variation, such modifications will add to the beautiful and harmonious diversity of nature.

North America, and there discover a series of analogous phenomena, it will appear certain that all these modifications of species, their extinction, and the introduction of new ones, cannot be owing to mere changes in marine currents or other causes more or less local and temporary, but depend on general laws which govern the whole animal kingdom.

The effect of this was so astoundingly nasty that we shall not be referring to it again at any point in this narrative-other than to record briefly the fact that it caused Zaphod to throw up inside his suit, which he therefore removed and swapped, after suitable headgear modifications, with the empty one.

Some of them even go as far as to say that that the only thing needed for the further work on the bacteria hybrid was the bacteria itself, since it already had in itself all the tools required for any further modifications or upgrades, and that means that all the further development effort could be conducted at home.

The general bacteriophage which has so nearly eliminated disease caused by pathogenic microorganisms on Earth was found capable of a subtle modification which made it potent against the analogous but different diseases of Venus.

It was Gibbs who had masterminded the sale of the Shark, a World War II, Gato- class submarine, to the Chilean government, and arranged its modifications to look like the Barracuda, before sinking it in fifteen hundred fathoms of water.

Whether such variability be taken advantage of by natural selection, and whether the variations be accumulated to a greater or lesser amount, thus causing a greater or lesser amount of modification in the varying species, depends on many complex contingencies,--on the variability being of a beneficial nature, on the power of intercrossing, on the rate of breeding, on the slowly changing physical conditions of the country, and more especially on the nature of the other inhabitants with which the varying species comes into competition.

The same modification that Carey had found to put a bend in the shield allowed Jane way to extrude the shield several hundred thousand kilometers in the direction of the bend.

With a few modifications, more horsepower, larger chassis and steering assembly, someplace to sit .

Additionally, both the Minuteman III and the Sego will require considerable modification for this mission.

It is, however, far more necessary to bear in mind that there are many unknown laws of correlation of growth, which, when one part of the organisation is modified through variation, and the modifications are accumulated by natural selection for the good of the being, will cause other modifications, often of the most unexpected nature.

But we may confidently believe that many modifications, wholly due to the laws of growth, and at first in no way advantageous to a species, have been subsequently taken advantage of by the still further modified descendants of this species.