Amendment vs. Modification

Amendmentnoun

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

Amendmentnoun

In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.

Amendmentnoun

(legal) Correction of an error in a writ or process.

Amendmentnoun

An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.

Amendmentnoun

That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.

Amendmentnoun

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

Amendmentnoun

In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.

Amendmentnoun

Correction of an error in a writ or process.

Amendmentnoun

the act of amending or correcting

Amendmentnoun

a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.)

Amendment

An amendment is a formal or official change made to a law, contract, constitution, or other legal document. It is based on the verb to amend, which means to change for better.

Modificationnoun

The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being.

Modificationnoun

(linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in I'm)

Modificationnoun

The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.

Modificationnoun

The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.

Modificationnoun

(biology) A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.

Modificationnoun

(linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language

Modificationnoun

The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine.

Modificationnoun

Something which has been modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; as, the various modifications of light; the latest modification of the operating system crashes less frequently.

Modificationnoun

The alteration of the meaning of a word or phrase by another word or phrase; - usually a restriction of the scope of the word modified; as, in the phrase "a billion dollars is a relatively small sum to spend on cancer research" the modification of small by relatively is needed to make the sentence accurate, rather than ludicrous.

Modificationnoun

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

Modificationnoun

slightly modified copy; not an exact copy;

Modificationnoun

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

Modificationnoun

an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another;