alteration

From Old French alteracion (French altération), from Medieval Latin alterātiō. Morphologically alter +‎ -ation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɒl.tə(ɹ)ˈeɪ.ʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɔl.tɚˈeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

alteration (countable and uncountable, 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; 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.

• alteration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “alteration”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

alteration (plural alterationes)

1. change, alteration