Alteration vs Modification - What's the difference?
alteration | modification |
The act of altering or making different.
* 1594 , , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity ,
The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
* 1892 , ,
the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified
an alteration or adjustment to something
* Jim's modification to the radio's tuning resulted in clearer sound.
a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring
* Due to his sunbathing, Jim's body experienced modifications : he got a tan.
(linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language
* The Chinese word "kòu tóu" had a modification made to become the English "kowtow" .
(linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am'' => '' 'm'' in ''I'm )
As nouns the difference between alteration and modification
is that alteration is the act of altering or making different while modification is the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.alteration
English
Noun
(en noun)- …alteration , though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…
- …and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.