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countable and uncountable, plural alterations
The act of altering or making different. quotations examples
…alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…
1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; a changed condition. quotations examples
…and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.
1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Resident Patient”, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes