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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Alteration \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
alteration
n 1: 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"
[syn: {change}, {modification}]
2: the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a
garment) [syn: {modification}, {adjustment}]
3: the act of transforming; "it would require a drastic
revision of his opinion" [syn: {revision}]
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