alteration

[ awl-tuh-rey-shuh n ]

/ ˌɔl təˈreɪ ʃən /

the act or process of altering; the state of being altered: Alteration will improve the dress.

a change; modification or adjustment: There has been an alteration in our plans.

Origin of alteration

1350–1400; Middle English alteracioun < Medieval Latin alterātiōn- (stem of alterātiō). See alter, -ation

pre·al·ter·a·tion, noun pro·al·ter·a·tion, adjective re·al·ter·a·tion, noun

Close was so distraught by the alteration that she initially refused to take part in the re-shoot.

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If they liked it, fine; if not, they would often suggest an alteration.

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No alteration of the facts of life is necessary, but only a change of attitude.

Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 |Various
Such acts might easily be made use of by the Emperor and his council to effect an alteration in the character of those bodies.

The Thirty Years' War |Samuel Rawson Gardiner

It is unnecessary to say that the heated wines had not experienced the least alteration.

Louis Pasteur |Ren Vallery-Radot
The effect of this alteration would be to remove also the useless and improper restriction on the sale of game.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 405, July 1849 |Various
We have shown that as for the alteration of Crates, it makes no difference whether it be read so or not.

The Geography of Strabo, Volume I (of 3) |Strabo

alteration

/ (ˌɔːltəˈreɪʃən) /

an adjustment, change, or modification

the act of altering or state of being altered