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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
alteration
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
extensive
▪ Later astronomers made extensive alterations, and added new groups made up of stars stolen from the existing 48.
hydrothermal
▪ As well as the crushing effects described above, many of the rocks in the thrust zone suffered hydrothermal alteration.
▪ The ultrabasic rocks have been extensively affected by several phases of hydrothermal alteration.
▪ These hills result from hydrothermal alteration of the granites which are characteristic of the area.
late
▪ The general interior layout is magnificent, but later alterations have made the decoration of a lower standard.
▪ There are many later alterations and additions.
major
▪ What, then, could explain such major alterations?
▪ Iron fittings could replace wooden components gradually, allowing major alterations to take place over a long period.
▪ Such change can cause minor or even major alterations in the manner in which the total system functions.
▪ They may include more major alterations, such as widening a door for a wheelchair.
▪ The Springboks had to make a major alteration at half-time owing to an injury to Van Straaten.
▪ The body has undergone major alterations.
▪ On this occasion, so late in the proceedings, we continued to make major alterations.
minor
▪ She performed a few minor alterations on her body to make her feel better.
▪ An unacceptable deterioration of glycaemic control occurs when control can not readily be restored by a minor alteration of the treatment regimen.
▪ Archelaus Archelaus, who was roughly contemporary with Diogenes, seems to have taken over Anaxagoras' system, with minor alterations.
▪ An earlier draft had been rejected by the King who had requested a number of minor alterations.
radical
▪ Changes in his wardrobe were one thing, radical alterations in the traditional country code were quite another.
significant
▪ All church buildings are subject to normal planning control over, for example, changes of use and significant alterations.
slight
▪ The slightest alteration in the chemical balance would result immediately in a race of exploded beetles.
▪ Imagine, now, a slight alteration in the commercial.
▪ From their responses, slight alterations to some of the questions were made and the response categories were refined.
▪ Two departments rely mainly on a single source for their forecasts with perhaps slight alterations to incorporate their own views.
▪ The day before admission he developed an unsteady gait with slight alterations in mood and behaviour.
structural
▪ Ask for quotes for the full job, which will including fitting charges, plus any structural alterations needed.
▪ The licensing board may itself order structural alterations to be executed under s.36.
▪ Perhaps you ought to reconsider the bathroom and toilet provision, which will require expensive structural alterations and affect your pricing proposals.
▪ The corresponding provision for licensed premises with regard to structural alterations directed by the licensing board will be found in s.36.
■ VERB
involve
▪ Unlike sleep, rest does not involve an alteration in conscious level.
▪ His conversions involve few external visible alterations or internal subdivision of rooms.
▪ It should not involve a fundamental alteration of the position's particular requirements.
▪ Such investigations may simply involve iterative selective alterations to the tagset used with monitoring of any improvement or degradation in performance.
make
▪ Legal experts say it is worth protecting cheques until the new laws come in by making the alterations.
▪ I had the feeling Ted might have gotten a tattoo or something, made some drastic alteration in himself.
▪ If the valuation officer himself makes an alteration for whatever reason, for example, a renewed right exists.
▪ It has also to be recognized that all owners may need to make alterations and improvements to their property from time to time.
▪ The idea is to give the editor plenty of room to make changes and alterations.
▪ The scientists who designed Turry's remarkable suit have made a few alterations.
▪ Criticised for making so many alterations since becoming manager, Taylor is now looking for stability.
require
▪ All patient areas require alteration, decoration and cleaning from time to time.
▪ Perhaps you ought to reconsider the bathroom and toilet provision, which will require expensive structural alterations and affect your pricing proposals.
undergo
▪ The fort underwent several alterations before it seems to have been systematically demolished early in the second century.
▪ The body has undergone major alterations.
▪ The scene of many public ceremonies and processions prior to the Reformation, the church underwent many alterations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I've sent the suit to a tailor for alterations.
▪ Max walked past her, without acknowledging her presence by the slightest alteration in his expression.
▪ She noticed the alteration in his looks and manner.
▪ We're having some alterations made to our house.
▪ Your essay looks fine -- I've suggested one or two minor alterations here and there in the margin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All patient areas require alteration, decoration and cleaning from time to time.
▪ As from the effective date shown on your attached policy schedule the following alteration applies to the wording of your policy.
▪ I can wear an old suit with a little alteration so it will be more reasonable.
▪ The general interior layout is magnificent, but later alterations have made the decoration of a lower standard.
▪ The government is only cautiously expanding the limited free-market alterations of its socialist economy begun four years ago.
▪ Your 90 2.5 petrol will run perfectly on lead free petrol with no alteration.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alteration

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alteration

late 14c., "action of altering," from Old French alteracion (14c.) "change, alteration," and directly from Medieval Latin alterationem (nominative alteratio), noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin alterare (see alter). Meaning "change in character or appearance" is from 1530s; that of "change in ready-made clothes to suit a customer's specifications" is from 1901. Related: Alterations.\n

Wiktionary
alteration

n. 1 The act of altering or making different. 2 The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.

WordNet
alteration

  1. n. 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"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago" [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 revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification); "it would require a drastic revision of his opinion" [syn: revision]

Wikipedia
Alteration (album)

Alteration is the debut album by Australian/ Indonesian band Altera Enigma, recorded over 2 years and released on January 2006. The emotional and sophisticated style found on the album drew comparisons to Liquid Tension Experiment, Gordian Knot, and Cynic.

A music video was released for the bonus/outtake track "Perpetual Motion".

Alteration (disambiguation)

In music, alteration is the use of a neighboring pitch in the chromatic scale in place of its diatonic neighbor.

Alteration may also refer to:

  • in law, alteration is an offence of modifying an object with a view to deceiving another into believing that the true object is the same as that altered, for instance, money alteration is an offence of altering money "with the intent that it be brought into circulation as genuine or that such bringing into circulation be facilitated"
  • in tailoring, changing an existing garment
  • in geology, mineral alteration the changing of minerals and rock fabrics chemically by heat and fluid circulation
  • The Alteration, 1976 alternate history novel by Kingsley Amis
  • Alteration (album), by Altera Enigma

Usage examples of "alteration".

He still kept his army in Spain, and this proceeding determined Portugal to accede to some slight alterations in the first treaty.

SIR,- I am commanded by my uncle to acquaint you, that as he did not proceed to those measures he had taken with you, without the greatest deliberation, and after the fullest evidence of your unworthiness, so will it be always out of your power to cause the least alteration in his resolution.

I hoped nothing would occur to retard the progress of the work, and that the present arrangement might continue without changes of any kind, because I knew that when you were dictating your mind was completely absorbed by your mental labors, and that any alteration in your hours of work, or the necessity of explaining your methods to a new amanuensis, annoyed and impeded you.

It is a common product of alteration in igneous rocks, and frequently occurs as well-developed crystals in association with zeolites lining the amygdaloidal cavities of basaltic and other rocks.

On the 9th of February, the day on which Sir Robert Peel had announced he would develop the ministerial plan for the alteration of the corn-laws, extraordinary interest was exhibited both in and out of the house of commons.

Greek with Bishop Jewell, and translated his Apologia from the Latin so correctly that neither he nor Archbishop Parker could suggest a single alteration.

Doc Savage and the others more about the mysterious Boke than all they had learned prior to that moment, for the ejaculation was in a different tone, and the alteration showed that Boke had been speaking in a disguised voice.

For a long moment Cavilon glared with distaste at the powdered face gazing back at him, then resumed all the affectations that achieved the startling alteration in his looks.

Corruption names the perpetual process of alteration and metamorphosis, the antifoundational foundation, the deontological mode of being.

Next day a great number of citizens represented, in another petition, that the pavement of the city and liberties was often damaged, by being broken up for the purposes of amending or new-laying water-pipes belonging to the proprietors of water-works, and praying that provision might be made in the bill then depending, to compel those proprietors to make good any damage that should be done to the pavement by the leaking or bursting of the water-pipes, or opening the pavement for alterations.

The bill concerning the territories and revenues of the diocesses, or the established church bill, recited those parts of the reports of the commissioners which set forth the proposed alterations among the sees, and deductions from their revenues.

As we suspected, the MOGOWs and even some others like your Rico Erm, who were at heart subversives, took the bait and gathered around him in hopes of making some profound alteration in our system.

They are all extemporaneous productions, nor has any one a single alteration.

Genet is a gay man and has no particular desire to dress as a woman offstage, nor has he had any surgical alterations, such as breast implants, to further feminize his appearance.

I had no right to make any alteration in the piece of which she was the author and had a right to expect all the profits.