Other forms: modifications
A modification is a change made to improve or adapt something. A minor modification, vehicle modifications, modification of the design.
It implies the thing still works and is still recognisable, which is what separates it from a redesign. In insurance and in law it is a technical word: an unreported modification to a car can void the cover entirely.
1nounmodificationA change made to improve or adapt something.
“After a few small modifications, the machine worked perfectly.”
modification is a change.
Latin modificatio comes from modus, a measure or limit, plus facere, to make.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰeh₁-
Latin
modificātiō — a measuring
Middle French
modification
Middle English
modificatioune
English, today
modification
Built from
From 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA