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noun the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
noun slightly modified copy; not an exact copy
noun the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
originFrom Middle English modificatioune, from Middle French modification and its etymon Latin modificātiō (“a measuring”), from modificāre (“to limit, control, modify”); see modify. By surface analysis, modify + -ication.
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