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modification

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

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

Synonyms:

• about-face,
• accommodation,
• adaptation,
• adjustment,
• allophone,
• allowance,
• alteration,
• alveolar,
• amelioration,
• analysis,
• anatomization,
• apico-alveolar,
• apico-dental,
• apostasy,
• articulation,
• aspiration,
• assimilation,
• atomization,
• betterment,
• bilabial,
• break,
• cacuminal,
• cerebral,
• cession,
• change,
• change of heart,
• changeableness,
• check,
• circumscription,
• concession,
• consonant,
• constructive change,
• continuant,
• continuity,
• conversion,
• defection,
• degeneration,
• degenerative change,
• demarcation,
• dental,
• desynonymization,
• deterioration,
• deviation,
• difference,
• differencing,
• differentiation,
• diphthong,
• discontinuity,
• discrimination,
• disequalization,
• disjunction,
• dissimilation,
• distinction,
• distinguishment,
• divergence,
• diversification,
• diversion,
• diversity,
• division,
• epenthetic vowel,
• exception,
• exemption,
• explosive,
• extenuating circumstances,
• fitting,
• flip-flop,
• glide,
• glottal,
• glottalization,
• gradual change,
• grain of salt,
• grant,
• guttural,
• hedge,
• hedging,
• improvement,
• individualization,
• individuation,
• labial,
• labialization,
• labiodental,
• labiovelar,
• laryngeal,
• lateral,
• limitation,
• lingual,
• liquid,
• manner of articulation,
• melioration,
• mental reservation,
• metamorphosis,
• mitigation,
• modulation,
• monophthong,
• morphophoneme,
• mutation,
• mute,
• nasal,
• occlusive,
• overthrow,
• palatal,
• parasitic vowel,
• particularization,
• peak,
• personalization,
• pharyngeal,
• pharyngealization,
• phone,
• phoneme,
• plosive,
• prothetic vowel,
• qualification,
• radical change,
• re-creation,
• realignment,
• redesign,
• reform,
• reformation,
• remaking,
• renewal,
• reservation,
• reshaping,
• restriction,
• restructuring,
• retroflex,
• reversal,
• revival,
• revivification,
• revolution,
• salvo,
• segmental phoneme,
• segregation,
• semivowel,
• separation,
• severalization,
• severance,
• shift,
• sonant,
• sonority,
• special case,
• special treatment,
• specialization,
• specialness,
• specification,
• speech sound,
• stop,
• sudden change,
• surd,
• switch,
• syllabic nucleus,
• syllabic peak,
• syllable,
• tempering,
• total change,
• transformation,
• transition,
• transition sound,
• transmogrification,
• triphthong,
• turn,
• turnabout,
• upheaval,
• variation,
• variety,
• velar,
• violent change,
• vocable,
• vocalic,
• vocoid,
• voice,
• voiced sound,
• voiceless sound,
• voicing,
• vowel,
• waiver,
• worsening