Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or procedure of altering.
- n. The condition resulting from altering; modification.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of altering; the making of any change; passage from one form or state to another.
- n. A change effected; a change of form or state, especially one which does not affect the identity of the subject.
- n. In mineralogy, the change by which one mineral substance is converted into another, either with or without change of chemical composition; as, for example, the change of the oxid of copper, cuprite, to the carbonate, malachite; or of brookite to rutile, both being forms of titanium dioxid. See paramorphism and pseudomorphism.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of altering or making different.
- n. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of altering or making different.
- n. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)
- n. the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- n. an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
Examples
“_An alteration of honour_, is an _alteration_ of an _honourable state_ to a state of disgrace.”
“As Doug lectures him about the biotechnology of brain alteration, we are aware of the salmon "spreading down into Chip's underpants like a wide, warm slug".”
“If an alteration is identified, a genetic counselor can next examine whether the alteration has been previously reported in other individuals with LFS.”
“Also the website gives you friendly updates to business contacts in alteration to their websites and any other adjustments.”
“If an alteration is identified, one can next examine whether the alteration has been previously reported in other individuals with X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome (XLP).”
“Determination of progressivity of taxes always results in alteration of the legal incidence, and changes the three latter.”
Who Bears the Tax Burden?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Both sides are able to make a pretty plausible argument that the alteration is what they want it to be.”
“For Private Practice, second-season alteration is more an elective procedure than major surgery.”
“But, this cry for a different direction is not the most significant, long-term alteration that this contest will bring to the American people.”
Steve Miller: Amid New Media Landscape, Rachel Maddow Manages to Succeed in Old School Medium
“The second notable alteration is the person who pays Pío for the murder: from two Spaniards to "an Italian Jew.”
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