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What is a modifier?

What is a modifier? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who, or that which, modifies.
  2. (grammar) A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase.
  3. (programming) A keyword that qualifies the meaning of other code.
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Someone decided that the semicolons were needlessly fussy, resulting in what English teachers call a dangling modifier.
A distinction is made between premodification and post-modification In diamond mines in South Africa, diamond is a premodifier and in South Africa is a post modifier.
The change in allele frequency at the modifier locus during diploid selection is given by Recombination.
Whenever possible, the interactions were confirmed with additional alleles of each putative modifier gene.
A phrase or a clause used as an adjective modifier is called an adjective phrase or clause.
An alkyl group is a straight chain molecule, but if the modifier is in the form of a ring structure it is more properly called an aryl group.

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