Synonyms:
alteration, modification, adjustment
Meaning: the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
Synonyms:
modification
Meaning: slightly modified copy; not an exact copy; "a modification of last year's model"
Usage examples
A modification of this was afterward used on the French Atlantic lines for making an artificial horizon to take observations for position at sea.
Professor Stout, in his "Manual of Psychology," after discussing various ways of distinguishing sensations and images, arrives at a view which is a modification of Hume's.
Ladies should make morning calls in an elegant and simple neglige, all the details of which we cannot give, on account of their multiplicity and the numerous modification of fashion.
In any case, some active steps are taken which actually change some physical conditions. And apart from such steps and the consequent modification of the situation, there is no completion of the act of thinking.
Greg's comment in this instance is: "Curious if true." But he records without modification the fall of a meteorite at Gotha, Germany, Sept. 6, 1835, "leaving a jelly-like mass on the ground." We are told that this substance fell only three feet away from an observer.