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[ English

[ Etymology

compare with French altération.

[ Pronunciation

IPA: WEAE /ɔl.tɚˈeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn

[ Noun

Singular alteration

Plural alterations

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 thee alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.