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Modify, 'Modify' connoted not merely reduction but also other kinds of alteration including enlargement, Western India Theatres Ltd. v. Municipal Corporation of the City of Poona, AIR 1959 SC 586 (589): (1959) Supp 2 SCR 71. [Bombay Municipal Boronghs Act, 1925, s. 60]The word 'modify' means, according to Oxford Dictionary, 'to limit, restrain, to assuage, to make less serve, rigorous, or decisive to tone down'. It also means partial changes in: to alter without radical transformation', Burrakur Coal Co. Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1961 SC 954 (962). [Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Act 1957, s. 5(b)]...
Modifiability
Capability of being modified state or quality of being modifiable...
Modify
To change somewhat the form or qualities of to change a part of something while leaving most parts unchanged to alter somewhat as to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose to modify the terms of a contract...
modified adjusted gross income
modified adjusted gross income There are different definitions for different purposes. It is usually the adjusted gross income with various items added back in. ...
Modifiable
Capable of being modified liable to modification...
Modifier
One who or that which modifies...
VerbarHectocotylus
One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs In a special sense the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera which after receiving the spermatophores becomes detached from the male and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes...
Machine
In general any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified as a screw and its nut or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot etc especially a construction more or less complex consisting of a combination of moving parts or simple mechanical elements as wheels levers cams etc with their supports and connecting framework calculated to constitute a prime mover or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine and transmit modify and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work as weaving by a loom or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine...
Modification
The act of modifying or the state of being modified a change as the modification of an opinion or of a machine...
Modificatory
Tending or serving to modify modifying...
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