alteration
See also: altération
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French alteracion (French altération), from Medieval Latin alterātiō. Morphologically alter + -ation
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
alteration (countable and uncountable, plural alterations)
- The act of altering or making different.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity:
- …alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…
- The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; a changed condition.
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Resident Patient”, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes:
- …and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.
TranslationsEdit
the act of altering or making different
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the state of being altered
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Further readingEdit
- “alteration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “alteration”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
alteration (plural alterationes)