Alteration vs Modify - What's the difference?

As a noun alteration

is alteration.

to make partial changes to.

(en noun)

The act of altering or making different.

* 1594 , , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity ,

…alteration , though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…

The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.

* 1892 , ,

…and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.

(Webster 1913)

(en-verb)

To make partial changes to.

To be or become modified.

* adapt, alter, amend, revamp, rework

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