alteration
Academic Word List, sublist 5.
About 6.24 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The act of altering or making different. A minor adjustment to clothing, such as hemming or shortening, to make it fit better.
- noun A minor adjustment to clothing, such as hemming or shortening, to make it fit better.
- noun The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; a changed condition.
The doctors don't see any alteration in the patient's condition.
Similar words
change adjustment modification revision altering changing alter modified transformation transformative
Often followed by
of in or is and to was by which
Word family
alter alterable alterations altered altering alternate alternating alters
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