1. (

• alteration ,
• modification ,
• adjustment

) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) ;

2. (

• modification

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

3. (

• modification ,
• qualifying ,
• limiting

) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase ;

4. (

• change ,
• alteration ,
• modification

) 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" ;