Alter vs Transformation - What's the difference?
alter | transformation |
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
(mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
(linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
(genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
(politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.
As an adjective alter
is .As a noun transformation is
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Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)
