alteration

English

Etymology

From Old French alteracion (French altération), from Medieval Latin alterātiō.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɒl.tə(ɹ)ˈeɪ.ʃən/, SAMPA: /Ql.t@(r\)"eI.S@n/
• (US) IPA: /ɔl.tɚˈeɪ.ʃən/, SAMPA: /Ol.t@`"eI.S@n/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

alteration (plural alterations)

1. 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…

2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
   • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Resident Scholar in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,

     …and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Translations

the act of altering or making different

Finnish: muutos (fi) Oriya: ପରିବର୍ତ୍ତନ (or) Romanian: alterare (ro) f.; modificare f., schimbare (ro) f.

Scottish Gaelic: mùthadh (gd) m., atharrachadh (gd) m., caochladh (gd) m. Spanish: alteración (es) f., cambio (es) m., modificación (es) f.

the state of being altered

Finnish: muutos (fi)

Romanian: alterație (ro) f.

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Bulgarian: промяна (bg), изменение (bg) Turkish: tebdil, tebeddül

Ottoman Turkish: tebdil, tebeddül, تبديل , تبدّل

References

• “alteration” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.