See Also: Alteration(medicine)
alteration(dictionary)
alteration(dictionary)
ALTERATION(law)
modal alteration(medicine)
qualitative alteration(medicine)
quantitative alteration(medicine)

alteration (iou)



alteration noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French alteration or late Latin alteratio(n-) from alterat- pa. ppl stem of alterare: see ALTER verb, -ATION.]
The action of altering. LME.
chromatic alteration: see CHROMATIC adjective 1.
b. Music. Extension (usu. doubling) of the value of a note. E16-E17.
A change in character or appearance; an altered condition. LME.
b. spec. A change for the worse; a distemper. M16-M17.
Comb.: alteration hand one employed to alter or remake clothes.