Origin: French suffix -ier
Modifier has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising
"The seasoned editor acted as a modifier, softening the activist's fiery language before it went to print."
a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene
"The researcher discovered that while one gene caused blue eyes, a second modifier gene darkened them to gray in certain individuals."
One who, or that which, modifies.
"The data scientist identified a hidden modifier in the code that was altering all the user statistics."