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Alteration vs Reconfiguration - What's the difference?

alteration | reconfiguration |

As nouns the difference between alteration and reconfiguration

is that alteration is alteration while reconfiguration is a reconfigured state.

alteration

English

Noun

(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)

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    reconfiguration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reconfigured state.
  • :This reconfiguration is much faster than the old setting.
  • The act of reconfiguring.
  • :Reconfiguration will require a while but then the new form will make the computer much faster.