What is another word for alterations?

Pronunciation: [ˌɒltəɹˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

Alterations refer to the changes or modifications done in something to improve or refine it. The word alterations can be replaced with various synonyms to give a more enhanced and versatile meaning. Some of the synonyms for alterations include customization, revamp, reform, transformation, modification, and adjustment. Customization refers to the process of modifying according to the personal requirements. Revamp is used to describe a significant overhaul or renovation. Reform is used to bring an improvement in a process or system. Transformation is used to describe a radical change. Modification is used to describe minor changes. Adjustment is used to describe minor changes that are made for improving the performance or suitability. These synonyms give the word alterations various meanings that can be used in different areas.

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Usage examples for Alterations

Steps which will determine their whole subsequent life must be taken or declined; and for the determining of such alterations in the place or mode of their life there is often felt great need of a guidance which can be entirely relied upon.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Acton, however, was by no means a fastidious person, and when he had fitted her with a little saloon, and made a few primitive alterations below, he said she was quite good enough for him.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Even in the earlier editions of the "Origin of Species," where the "alterations" in the passage last quoted are called "accidental" in express terms, the word does not fall, so to speak, on a strong beat of the bar, and is apt to pass unnoticed.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler

Famous quotes with Alterations

  • Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
    Faith Baldwin
  • An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.
    Juan Cole
  • A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.
    Francis Crick
  • I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?
    Derek Jacobi
  • Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.
    Nick Nolte

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