- modification (of/to/in something) the act or process of changing something in order to improve it or make it more acceptable; a change that is made synonym adaptation
- Considerable modification of the existing system is needed.
- It might be necessary to make a few slight modifications to the design.
Extra Examples- A modification in the law has not led to an increase in prosecutions.
- The design requires considerable modification.
- The original plan had undergone fairly extensive modifications.
- These bikes are designed for racing and cannot be used on the road without modification.
- We need to make a few modifications to the proposals.
- a modification in smoking behaviour among older men
- people opposed to the genetic modification of plants
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- considerable
- extensive
- major
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- involve
- need
- require
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- with modification
- without modification
- modification in
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Word Originlate 15th cent. (in Scots law, denoting the assessment of a payment): from French, or from Latin modificatio(n-), from modificare, from modus ‘measure’, from an Indo-European root shared by mete.Definitions on the go
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