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Alteration vs Swapping - What's the difference?

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Alteration is a related term of swapping.


As nouns the difference between alteration and swapping

is that alteration is alteration while swapping is the act by which something is swapped; an exchange.

As a verb swapping is

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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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    swapping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is swapped; an exchange.