modifier

1. One who, or that which, modifies.

   Modifikator, Modifikatorin

   модифика́торmodifikátor

   a person who changes something

2. A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase. (It may be any of the following: an adjective phrase, an adverb phrase, a prepositional phrase, a noun phrase, or a subordinate clause.)

   Attribut, Bestimmungswort, Bestimmung

   определе́ниеopredelénije

   озна́ченняoznáčennja

   a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb

3. A keyword that qualifies the meaning of other code.

   The protected modifier makes a class member visible to subclasses, but not to external code.

1. A "modifier" has, just as it sounds, the role of embellishing sentences.

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2. There are grammar books that call these sorts of things, not modifiers, but adjuncts (A).

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