Meaning of ALTERATION
| Pronunciation: | | `oltu'reyshun
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- [n] the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- [n] the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification); "it would require a drastic revision of his opinion"
- [n] an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago"
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| | Synonyms: | | adjustment, change, modification, modification, revision |
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| | See Also: | | accommodation, adaptation, birth, breakup, change, chromosomal mutation, conversion, damage, death, decease, decrease, deformation, destabilization, detachment, development, distraction, drop-off, easing, fluctuation, genetic mutation, happening, harm, impairment, increase, laxation, lessening, loosening, loss of consciousness, metamorphosis, moderation, modulation, mutation, nascence, nascency, nativity, natural event, occurrence, play, qualification, relief, reorganization, revolution, scintillation, separation, shift, shimmer, sparkling, sublimation, surprise, tightening, transfiguration, transformation, transformation, transition, translation, transmutation, twinkle, variation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Al`ter*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. alt['e]ration.]
1. The act of altering or making different.
Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath
in it incoveniences. --Hooker.
2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or
nature of a thing; changed condition.
Ere long might perceive Strange alteration in me.
--Milton.
Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of
those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding
alterations, that council degenerated into a most
corrupt. --Swift.
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| | Definition: | | Changing or making different. |
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| | Related Terms: | | about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, amelioration, analysis, anatomization, apostasy, atomization, betterment, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, changeover, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, demarcation, desynonymization, deterioration, deviation, difference, differencing, differentiation, discontinuity, discrimination, disequalization, disjunction, distinction, distinguishment, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, fitting, flip-flop, fluctuation, gradual change, improvement, individualization, individuation, melioration, metamorphosis, mitigation, modification, modulation, mutation, overthrow, particularization, passage, personalization, qualification, radical change, realignment, re-creation, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revision, revival, revivification, revolution, segregation, separation, severalization, severance, shift, shilly-shally, specialization, sudden change, switch, total change, transformation, transit, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, vacillation, variation, variety, violent change, wavering, worsening |
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