alteration
awl tuh ray shuhn
- n an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
- n the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- n the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)
- One rare and classic exception to this rule, the peppered moth, underwent a major alteration during just 50 years in 19th century Englandthus providing living proof of Darwin's .
- The Internet will undergo substantial alteration as optical technologies allow the transmission of many trillions of bits per second on each strand of the Internet's fiber-optic .
- Jurors said they based their decision instead on Andersen's alteration of an internal memo that was critical of an Enron earnings release.