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Modifier

noun

A content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb. Synonym: qualifier.

A moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising.

A person who changes something. Synonym: changer.

A gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene. Synonym: modifier gene.

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"Modifier" Quotes from Famous Books

... importance as a factor in life and a modifier of its conditions, the machine is in every sense a new and unprecedented fact. The machine has no traditions. The only way to take a traditional stand with regard to life or the representation of life to-day, is to leave the ...

— The Voice of the Machines - An Introduction to the Twentieth Century • Gerald Stanley Lee

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