ALTERATION

ALTERA'TION, noun [Latin alteratio.]The act of making different, or of varying in some particular; an altering or partial change; also the change made, or the loss or acquisition of qualities not essential to the form or nature of a thing. Thus a cold substance suffers an alteration when it becomes hot.

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alteration. Alteration, n. a change made, the act of changing

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Al′ter‐a″tion (�), n. [[Cf. F. altération.]] 1. 1. The act of altering or making different.
Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. 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.