(grammar) a noun which is used attributively to modify or qualify another noun, in a different way to an adjective. For example, in railway station, railway is used as a modifier to describe what kind of station it is.

plural of noun modifier

(computing) A key (on a computer keyboard) that may be pressed simultaneously with certain other keys to activate predefined functions.

plural of access modifier

plural of squinting modifier

(grammar) A modifier that could apply either to the clause the precedes it or the clause that follows it; an instance of amphiboly.

Produced by genetic modification; abbreviated as GM.

(construction) A bitumen modified by including one or more polymers

plural of modified bitumen

Any of various products, prepared by physical or chemical treatment of starch, that are used as food additives