Synonyms of the word alteration


ALTERATIONADJUSTMENT - CHANGE - HAPPENING - MODIFICATION - OCCURRENCE - OCCURRENT - REVISION - TRANSFORMATION - TRANSLATION

alteration

  • n. The act of altering or making different.
  • n. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.

adjustment

  • n. The action of adjusting something.
  • n. The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration.
  • n. The settling or balancing of a financial account.
  • n. The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
  • n. The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

happening

  • v. present participle of happen.
  • adj. (slang, of a place) Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable.
  • adj. (slang, of a person or product) Trendy, up-to-the-minute.
  • n. Something that happens.
  • n. A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation.

modification

  • n. the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.
  • n. an alteration or adjustment to something.
  • n. a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
  • n. (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
  • n. (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in…

occurrence

  • n. Actual instance when a situation arises.

occurrent

  • adj. Current, actual, occurring.
  • n. (now chiefly philosophy) An event, something that occurs.

revision

  • n. (uncountable) The process of revising.
  • n. (countable) A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
  • n. (countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.
  • v. To provide with a new vision.

transformation

  • n. The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
  • n. A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
  • n. (mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of…
  • n. (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived…
  • n. (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if…
  • n. (politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist…

translation

  • n. (uncountable) The act or (countable) an act of translating, in its various senses.
  • n. (countable) The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.

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