alteration Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
    modification; change.
    • 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
  2. noun the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
    modification; adjustment.
  3. noun the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)
    revision.
    • it would require a drastic revision of his opinion

WordNet

Al`ter*a"tion noun
Etymology
Cf. F. altération.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913