ALL meanings of modifier
mod·i·fi·er
M m - noun Technical meaning of modifier (programming) An operation that alters the state of an object. Modifiers often have names that begin with "set" and corresponding selector functions whose names begin with "get". 1
- noun modifier See dangling participle, misplaced modifier. 1
- noun modifier A person or thing that makes partial or minor changes to something. 1
- noun modifier grammar: qualifier 1
- noun modifier a person or thing that modifies. 1
- noun modifier Grammar. a word, phrase, or sentence element that limits or qualifies the sense of another word, phrase, or element in the same construction. the immediate constituent of an endocentric construction that is not the head. 1
- countable noun modifier A modifier is a word or group of words that modifies another word or group. In some descriptions of grammar, only words that are used before a noun are called modifiers. 0
- noun modifier a word or phrase that qualifies the sense of another word; for example, the noun alarm is a modifier of clock in alarm clock and the phrase every day is an adverbial modifier of walks in he walks every day 0
- noun modifier a person or thing that modifies 0
- noun modifier a person or thing that modifies; esp., a word, phrase, or clause that limits the meaning of another word or phrase 0